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    "How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean

    Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara."

    https://www.nationalgeographic.c…

    • Makes you wonder about all those "big flood" ancient stories...
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    • This event shouldn't, given humans were still basically apes back then. Black or Red sea post-Ice Age inundations though, perhaps.Nairn
    • During Carnian Pluvial Event, Earth endured over one million years of rain... imagine it!OBBTKN
    • We've often been here raining for months, I can't even imagine a million years!OBBTKN
    • ^If only there were homo sapiens 5.3 million years ago.sarahfailin
    • damn everyone beat me to it on thissarahfailin

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