The world’s biggest flood in history may have filled the entire Mediterranean around five million years ago, creating what we ...

If you managed to somehow see through all the muddy sediment stirred up by the flood waters, you might have found a few surprised fish in the depths, stunned or struck dead outright by the force ...

If correct, (and some scientists do dispute the theory), the so-called Zanclean megaflood would be the largest single flood recorded on Earth. But extraordinary claims like this require ...

The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...