Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or more specifically, the Messinian and Zanclean ages—the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and formed a ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence supporting the Zanclean megaflood, a theorized event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea after the Messinian Salinity Crisis had ...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), which occurred between approximately 5.96 and 5.33 million years ago, represents a significant geological event in the history of the Mediterranean Sea.

Scientists may have discovered how the Mediterranean Sea vanished, according to a new study revealing it happened in two phases.

For instance, the potential extinction of European glaciers in France, Italy, and the Pyrenees within years pales in comparison to the scale of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The Messinian ...

However, during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a far more extreme event took place. Nearly one million cubic kilometers of salt, mainly gypsum and halite, were deposited, creating a legacy that ...