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The largest lake ever to exist on Earth – the Paratethys megalake – suffered a disaster that killed off most of its lifeforms less than 10 million years ago, a new study says. At its vastest, Paratethys had a surface area of more than a million square miles (2.8 million square km) – slightly larger than the present-day Mediterranean Sea, according to a team led by experts at Utrecht University, Netherlands. For a modern day comparison, Paratethys would stretch from the eastern Alps to what is now Kazakhstan in central Asia. It also contained a water volume of more than 1.77 million km3 – representing more than a third the volume of the Mediterranean today. ....
In 1974 at the East Turkana site in Kenya, scientists unearthed a small skull fragment that they dated back to 1.9 million years ago and belonged to a Homo erectus. It is the second oldest skull fragment ever found – the title belongs to a specimen found in South Africa that dates back 2 million years. Since there was so much skepticism regarding the East Turkana skull’s age – they speculated that the bone may have been moved to the location because of water or wind, suggesting that the remains weren’t as old as initially thought – researchers went back to the site and conducted geological surveys. ....
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