The largest lake in Earth’s history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethys—or Lake Paratethys, if you will—and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth’s ...

Known as Lake Paratethys, it stretched from the Alps all the way to Central Asia, covering an enormous area of over 2.8 million square kilometers. Dr. Dan Palcu of Utrecht University in the ...

The most impressive feature was probably the Paratethys – a water body stretching all the way from the Alps to Central Asia. For the first time ever, research led by one of Utrecht University ...

Megalake Paratethys formed 12 million years ago and stretched from the eastern Alps of Europe to what is now Kazakhstan in Central Asia You can save this article by registering for free here.

The megalake holds the Guinness World Record for the largest known lake on Earth. It extended over an immense area of 2.8 million square kilometers, eclipsing even the vastness of the modern ...

An ancestor of the present-day rabbit The Paratethys Sea -which was located to the south of Europe and spanned from the northern Alps to the Aral Sea in western Asia- had disappeared, and a lack ...

The largest lake ever to exist on Earth – the Paratethys megalake – suffered a 'disaster' that killed off most of its lifeforms less than 10 million years ago, a new study says. At its ...

At its largest, scientists suspect Paratethys covered about 1.08 million square miles. But it also went through several periods of drying out between 7.65 and 7.9 million years ago, which ...

The snails lived in the seagrass meadows of Vienna and Baden, which were covered by the Paratethys Sea millions of years ago. New names have to be created for all 33 species and nine genera ...

More information: Mathias Harzhauser et al, The Central Paratethys Sea—rise and demise of a Miocene European marine ...