The Red Sea became a desert about 6.2 million years ago, before a massive flood from the Indian Ocean turned it into a waterway again.

Once cut off from the seas and dried into a salt desert, the Red Sea was reborn 6.2 million years ago by a massive flood that ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

The Red Sea didn't just part, as the Biblical account goes. Millions of years ago, it just vanished until a colossal flood refilled it shortly after.

KAUST researchers discovered that the Red Sea experienced a massive disruption 6.2 million years ago, completely transforming ...