Credit: Utrecht University The Guinness Book of World Records has officially recognized the Paratethys as the largest lake in Earth’s history. This immense lake, also known as Lake Paratethys, held a ...

The dolphin lived approximately 22 million years ago in a coastal region of the Miocene Paratethys Sea in present-day Upper Austria. Analysis of its inner ear confirms that the animal had excellent ...

During the construction of a power plant near Traun (Linz-Land district, Upper Austria) in 1980, private collector Jürgen Pollerspöck discovered the remains of a prehistoric dolphin that lived ...

The animal lived around 22 million years ago in a coastal section of the Miocene Paratethys Sea in what is now Upper Austria. The shallow inland sea in which the newly described dolphin lived some ...

It had long since lost its connection to what would become the Indian Ocean and was separated from the Paratethys Sea by the rise of the Anatolian Peninsula. It would have been a closed-off body of ...

These events, closely tied to variations in carbon and oxygen isotope composition, are attributed to the regression of the Paratethys Sea, Tibetan Plateau uplift, global cooling, and tectonic events.

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 largest lake ever known to have existed has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records. Megalake Paratethys formed 12 million years ago and stretched from the eastern Alps of Europe to ...