Paratethys was previously a sea, connected to the rest of the ... than 10 times the volume of all modern lakes combined. The megalake's unique array of creatures included dolphins and whales ...

At its height, the brackish waters of Paratethys spread over an area of 2.8 million square kilometers and held 1.77 million cubic kilometers (km 3) of water, more than 10 times the volume of all the ...

This megalake formed through the raising of central Europe’s mountain ranges, thereby separating the ancient Paratethys Sea from the ocean and forming megalake Paratethys, the largest lake ever.

The megalake holds the Guinness World Record for ... eclipsing even the vastness of the modern Mediterranean Sea. Within its confines, it harbored a remarkable reservoir of about 1.77 million ...

By exploring the cataclysms that this ancient megalake ... of the Black Sea is that it also functions as a carbon sink by storing greenhouse gasses. Dr. Palcu said the Paratethys broke more ...

The new world record is based on a 2021 study that mapped the megalake's historical ... These changes cut the Paratethys from the rest of the open ocean, turning it from a sea into a lake.

Their findings showed that as mountain ranges rose up in Central Europe, they cut off the ancestral Paratethys Sea from the global oceans, transforming it into a massive inland lake. At its peak, Lake ...

Megalake Paratethys formed 12 million years ago and ... of all the current salt and freshwater lakes combined. The Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Aral Sea are the main remnants of Paratethys and ...

The evolution of the Paratethys and Black Sea basins has been shaped by a complex interplay of tectonic activity, climate change and fluctuating hydrological budgets over millions of years.