In fact, the Mediterranean Sea was, at one time, not even a sea at all. In fact, this now firmly aquatic areas once became a large, salty desert. This is all because of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

There was a rapid loss of water from evaporation, which happened in under 10,000 years, and the level of the Mediterranean dropped about 1.7 to 2.1 kilometers in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, ...

This week's Sea-Floor Sunday is a really nice synthesis map of bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea. Click on the map below or here to go to the page where you can see more.

Figure 1: Map of Black Sea (BS) and Caspian Sea (CS) drainage basins (black lines). Overall, the Sofular record shows strong evidence for a highly dynamic hydrological history of the BS, with more ...

The serene turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea hide a sharp-tasting secret: a layer of salt up to two miles thick, lurking deep underneath the basin. The ghostly white minerals are one of ...

Large parts of the Mediterranean Sea are 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, with some recent readings in the 10-15 degrees above normal range. The waterway last set its all-time warmest ...

The Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic Ocean waters breached the strait of Gibraltar, sending a massive flood into the basin.

Geologists at the University of Otago in New Zealand have used ice cores to show that the Mediterranean Sea almost completely dried up 5.6 million years ago due to changes in Antarctica.