Earth’s Largest Lake in History Lands in Guinness Book of Records
The largest lake in Earth’s history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethys—or Lake Paratethys, if you will—and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth’s modern lakes. In other words, it’s long overdue for its place in the Guinness Book.Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023At its height, the Paratethys stretched from Austria in the west to Turkmenistan in the east. It covered 1.08 million square miles (2.8 million square kilometers) and contained about 407,000 cubic miles (1.77 million cubic…