Scientists say 6 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was dry. Then global warming flooded it in about 2 years. Dam cave men and their fires.

“The Mediterranean Sea was mostly filled in less than two years in a dramatic flood around 5.33 million years ago in which water poured in from the Atlantic, according to a study published Wednesday. Sea water flooded in through the Strait of Gibraltar at a rate three times the current flow of the Amazon River, said the report publish by the scientific journal Nature. “