Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis -- a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago 2.

Skilled craftspeople constructed wooden canoes over 7000 years ago, revealing signs of advanced ... indicate extensive trade across the Mediterranean region. Analysis of wood samples from the ...

Its waters quickly evaporated due to the region's arid climate ... After gathering all Mediterranean fossil data from between 12 and 3.6 million years ago, the results suggest that native marine ...

Scientists analyzed Mediterranean salt deposits to uncover the Messinian Salinity Crisis that caused massive water loss and ...

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

Around 5.5 million years ago, almost three quarters of the Mediterranean Sea evaporated into the air – and new research helps to explain what caused this event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis ...