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

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

"Growing ... is becoming increasingly difficult." Scientists warn iconic Mediterranean staples could soon be out of reach: ...

Photo: Daniel Garcia Castellanos Around six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic. With no incoming water and a hot, dry climate, the sea transformed over time ...

According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea ... the end of the crisis, without scientists really ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...