A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Imagine the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Then imagine the Atlantic refilling it in less than two years. That seems to be what happened 5 million years ago.

It's probably the largest flood in our planet's history.

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A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Around 5 million years ago, the Zanclean Megaflood filled the dry Mediterranean Sea with Atlantic Ocean water, carving a trench through the Strait of Gibraltar ...

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Our latest research investigates sedimentary rock from ... tunnel through Gibraltar suggested that a huge underwater trench between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea must have been ...

A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the ...