Flood Could Have Filled Mediterranean In Less Than Two Years

[soundsop]

http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50596/title/The_big_spill_Flood_could_have_filled_Mediterranean_in_less_than_two_years

[pronoiac]

Luckily, 5.3 million years ago water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way back in to the drying seabed through what is now the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco.

The biblical Flood came to mind, but this date makes it older than humanity (2.5 million years, says Wikipedia).

[joshu]

so... Ice Age II could have been based on a true story?