Caspian Sea

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…

Around 2,500 of endangered seals in the Caspian Sea have washed ashore along the coast of Dagestan, Russia, CNN reports, citing the state-run news agency RIA Novosti.Authorities in the region don’t know why so many Caspian seals have died in such a short period of time. Scientists are concerned, because Caspian seals are the only marine mammal that live in the Caspian Sea and aren’t found anywhere else in the world, the Washington Post reports.Dagestan’s Ministry of Natural Resources believe the seals died from natural…