The largest lake of all time.

Researchers from the universities of Utrecht and Sao Paulo have presented a study that reveals details of the history of the largest lake of all time, it was in Europe, it reached 2 million 800 thousand square kilometers, that is more than the size of the sea Mediterranean water stores approximately 1,770 cubic kilometers of brackish water, which represents more than ten times all the fresh and salt water currently stored in lakes on earth.

This mega lake has been named Paratethys, it was formed about 12 million years ago after the movement of the continents disconnecting an ancient sea from the ocean, in this new mass the inner water life evolved for 5 million years Isolated from the rest of the world, the water developed an extraordinary endemic fauna that included dolphins and whales.

The smallest whales in all of history, the Cetotherium riabinini was a baleen whale but it was dwarf if we compare it with its ocean relatives, it was a miniature version since this species was only three meters long, it had the shape of a whale but the size of a dolphin, however the species of the lake were doomed the Paratethys suffered episodes of partial desiccation, losing up to a third of the water by evaporation, the lake was fragmented into smaller ones in the central account, which is now the Black Sea became particularly toxic and barren.

Most life forms became extinct and those that survived became ill and deformed, a catastrophe for life, a catastrophe that we now see repeated but to a magnitude hundreds of times less in the drying up of great lakes, such as the Sea of Aral in central Asia or Lake Chad in central Africa.

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