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

The event is known as the Zanclean megaflood. The trouble is, most of the previous evidence came from salt deposits — some kilometers thick — on the Mediterranean seafloor — an indication of what ...

With no incoming water and a hot, dry climate, the sea transformed over time into parched salt flats. This so-called Messinian Salinity Crisis lasted for 600,000 years.

They named that age “Messinian” and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis.

They named that age “Messinian” and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis. In the 1970s, scientists for the first time drilled deep below the Mediterranean into ...

They named that age “Messinian” and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis. In the 1970s, scientists for the first time drilled deep below the Mediterranean ...

Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature 400:652–655. Lascaratos, A., W. Roether, K. Nittis, and B. Klein. 1999. Recent changes in deep water formation and spreading ...

They chose the Mediterranean's famous gypsum formations, which formed 6 million years ago during a sharp increase in salinity dubbed the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

"The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean," said Sellam.

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 ...

Until, that is, this roughly 600,000-year-long period known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis suddenly came to an end. At first, scientists believed that the water’s return to the Mediterranean ...

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 ...