A groundbreaking discovery off the coast of Italy has scientists excited about a potentially life-changing resource.

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive, ...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), occurring between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, was a significant environmental event that drastically altered the Mediterranean Sea.

The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), occurring between approximately 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, represents a watershed moment in Earth’s geological history. This event is marked by the ...

Is it possible for you to survive in the Late Miocene Epoch? In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A ...

Scientists have identified two phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis that transformed the Mediterranean into a massive salt basin 5 million years ago. Analysis of chlorine isotopes reveals drastic ...

Geologists have analyzed volcanic data from the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, when the Strait of Gibraltar was blocked and the Mediterranean temporarily isolated from the ...

It formed about 5.5 million years ago because of the disconnection from the Atlantic during the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Closure of the last connecting channel between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, leading to the Messinian salinity crisis 5.96 million years ago.

The process, now referred to as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, turned the ancient sea as a 1.5-kilometer-deep, salt-caked basin for about 270,000 years.