There’s going to be a floodie floodie

Five million years ago, a flood filled the Mediterranean Sea in only two years.

In a period ranging from a few months to two years, the scientists say that 90% of the water was transferred into the basin. “This extremely abrupt flood may have involved peak rates of sea level rise in the Mediterranean of more than 10m per day,” he and his colleagues wrote in the Nature paper.

• floods
• geology