The Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis—a major geological event that transformed the ...

The Army reported that on Nov. 10, 2023, a Black Hawk helicopter was conducting aerial refueling training in the ...

A recent study led by a CNRS scientist analyzed the significant drop in the Mediterranean Sea level during the monumental ...

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Sea, which led to a period ...

Like all beautiful things, the Mediterranean Sea isn’t going to be around forever. As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates ...

Recent studies reveal that the Messinian Salinity Crisis led to the Mediterranean Sea becoming a vast salt basin through a ...

Around 5.5 million years ago, a dramatic event called the Messinian Salinity Crisis turned most of the Mediterranean Sea into a massive salt basin. Over a period of about 640,000 years, the sea lost ...

Among 21 winter Mediterranean itineraries currently offered, an eight-day trip between Venice and Athens recently started at ...

So the theory goes, an upset in sea levels made it impossible for the Atlantic Ocean to flow into the Mediterranean Sea, plummeting it into a period of near-complete desiccation between 5.97 to 5. ...