Roughly 6.2 million years ago, the Red Sea—today one of the world’s most strategically vital marine passages—underwent a ...

Some 6.2 million years ago, the Red Sea basin was not recognizable as the deep blue waters of the ocean it is now. Instead, it was a desolate wasteland, cut off from Earth’s oceans, and inundated by ...

The Red Sea didn't just part, as the Biblical account goes. About 6.2 million years ago, it just vanished. Then, 100,000 years later, a colossal flood suddenly refilled it. A team of researchers has ...

An ambitious mission aims to protect one of the Mediterranean’s last great frontiers: Caprera Canyon, a vast underwater valley off Sardinia’s coast.