In this stunning astronaut photo, a rare "sunglint" transforms the Mediterranean Sea’s surface into a swirling ... several ...

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

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.

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 a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found. Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools ...