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How the Atlantic Ocean Drowned an Entire Lost World Overnight

5 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea didn't just shrink it vanished. Where cruise ships sail today, there was once a 2.5-mile-deep desert of endless salt flats, baking at 175F. This is the true story of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

When tectonic shifts sealed the Strait of Gibraltar, the entire sea evaporated over two million years opening a land bridge between Africa and Europe. Herds of three-toed Hipparion horses crossed the dry basin, stalked by giant saber-toothed cats. The ancestors of Gibraltar's wild Barbary macaques walked across on solid ground where 3,000 feet of ocean now churns.

Stranded mountaintops became islands the future Sicily, Sardinia, Crete, Cyprus, and Malta. Cut off and starved of resources, evolution shrank their animals into bizarre dwarf forms: elephants barely three feet tall, hippos the size of sheep.

Then the rock at Gibraltar failed, and the Atlantic came roaring back in the most violent flood the la casa de papel planet has ever produced.

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