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We are all familiar with Earth’s four oceans: Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, and Indian. And now, thanks to National Geographic, there is officially a fifth ocean – the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica. Alex Tait, who is a National Geographic Society Geographer, stated, “The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was. Read more » ....
The largest lake ever to exist on Earth – the Paratethys megalake – suffered a disaster that killed off most of its lifeforms less than 10 million years ago, a new study says. At its vastest, Paratethys had a surface area of more than a million square miles (2.8 million square km) – slightly larger than the present-day Mediterranean Sea, according to a team led by experts at Utrecht University, Netherlands. For a modern day comparison, Paratethys would stretch from the eastern Alps to what is now Kazakhstan in central Asia. It also contained a water volume of more than 1.77 million km3 – representing more than a third the volume of the Mediterranean today. ....
Paratethys, once the world’s largest lake inhabited by ancient mini dolphins and whales, dwindled to nothing over a series of drying crises that took place less than 10. ....