During the most severe event, the mega-lake lost over two-thirds of its area and one-third of its volume, with water levels plunging by as much as 250 meters. This devastated the native species and ...

The megalake holds the Guinness World Record for the largest known lake on Earth. It extended over an immense area of 2.8 million square kilometers, ...

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.

You can find five of the world's top 10 largest lakes in North America. But one overseas inland body takes the crown for biggest lake in the world.

His fascinating research shows the immense proportions of the largest lake the Earth has ever seen: the Paratethys. Guinness World Records published a whole page about the ‘ ...

The Great Lakes cover 94,250 square miles of the Earth’s surface, give Michigan over 3,000 miles of coastline and hold 5,439 cubic miles of water. That makes them the largest freshwater system ...

Lake Erie is the 12th-largest freshwater lake in the world. ... In the final part of our "Earth 365" series, we head north to Lake Erie. It's the 12th-largest freshwater lake in the world.

Fifty-three percent of the world’s largest freshwater lakes are in decline, storing less water than they did three decades ago, according to a new study published in Science. The study analyzed ...