So how did this salty basin become the Mediterranean Sea once again? Well the situation reversed in exactly the same way that it was caused. The African and Eurasian tectonic plates continued to move.

the Mediterranean basin gradually refilled with water. However, the 2009 discovery of an erosion channel that stretches from the Gulf of Cadiz on Spain’s Atlantic coast to the Alboran Sea east ...

As two of Earth's great tectonic plates slowly crash together, the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be wiped off the face of ...

The collision occurred between the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the merchant vessel Besiktas-M, according to U.S. Navy spokesperson.

Around 5.97 million years ago, an event called the Messinian salinity crisis occurred whereby the Mediterranean Sea turned into a vast salty basin for around half a million years. An upset in sea ...

The evidence for this has been growing ever since. This megaflood first filled up the western basin of the Mediterranean Sea, says Carling. Eroded features on the seafloor suggest it then spilled ...

SHORT, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but like many of the climate extremes in recent years, including the ...

The sunny Mediterranean Sea—today a very popular holiday destination ... leaving vast salt plains in the basin. Scientists previously thought that this dry period was ended gradually when ...

More than a thousand earthquakes have rattled the Greek island of Santorini in recent days, raising concerns about the ...

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with a large merchant vessel Wednesday night in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.