The great natural dam at Gibralter is either burst by an earthquake or over-run by rising sea levels, with the result being a staggeringly violent rebirth of the Mediterranean Sea

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CONTENTS of 59,999,999 BC- 51,000 BC Large land and aquatic mammals appear; many kinds of primates appear (almost as many go extinct); an island continent finally disappears for good; the Mediterranean valley turns into the Mediterranean Sea; human beings emerge, develop housing, clothes, lamps, and drugs, breed dogs, use horses; Mars dies (or goes dormant)

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Approximately 5,500,000 BC: The great natural dam at Gibralter is either burst by an earthquake or over-run by rising sea levels, with the result being a staggeringly violent rebirth of the Mediterranean Sea...

...in a once in several millennia spectacle which would have been awesome and terrifying for any spectators from among humanity's ancestors to behold.

-- "The Mediterranean: Sea of Man's Fate" by Rick Gore, National Geographic December 1982, pages 704-705

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