Only 185 craters on Earth have been identified, and almost all are on dry land, leaving largely unexamined the 70 percent of the planet ... just before the disaster. The Bible describes a deluge for ...

Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive ...

It was created in what is perhaps the largest flood to ever happen on planet Earth, at least that we know ... another kind of flood millions of years before the Ice Age floods.

The fossil record is difficult to read in much detail, but scientists think that before ... flood happened millions of years ago, Micallef says, it holds important clues about the future of our ...

If correct, (and some scientists do dispute the theory), the so-called Zanclean megaflood would be the largest single flood recorded on Earth. But extraordinary ... roughly 5 and 6 million years ago, ...

The largest known flood in ... happened in Earth’s history,” says Aaron Micallef, a marine geoscientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a nonprofit oceanography center. “It was perhaps ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood ... from planet Earth to ...