Imagine the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Then imagine the Atlantic refilling it in less than two years. That seems to be what happened 5 million years ago.

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the ...

A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

UNICEF says the dangers children face at sea reflect deeper crises on land: many are fleeing war, poverty and political ...

Experts from the University of Zadar in Croatia, found a road at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea that was built 7,000 ...

Hearing a lot about this style of eating? Here are some simple ways to get started on a culinary journey through Southern ...

The number of Bangladeshi nationals reaching Italian shores by crossing the Mediterranean Sea has more than doubled in the ...

A legal adviser to the European Union's high court backed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's controversial scheme to ...

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 ...