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As the sun climbs higher and higher in the skies, the family of Myotragus continue to feed. These goats are supremely well adapted to the harsh and dry conditions of this region, an area of land that will one day in 5.33 million years be known as the Mediterranean island of Minorca. Their metabolism has evolved to be similar to that of reptiles, allowing them to withstand the brutal heat and their gut is well suited to digesting the tough vegetation. Their hooves give them supreme mobility across the steep slopes of these mountains, making even the sharpest cliff faces a mere triviality for them. As they continue to feed, a low-pitched and deep booming sound attracts the attention of the mother. She looks towards the horizon, and a vast desert interspersed with the occasional mountain peak, greet her. This landscape is the ghostly shadow of what was once a bustling and productive sea, full of islands that housed endless diversity of life. But now the sea is gone, the only trace of its existence the salt that forms these plains. Unbeknownst to her, this golden age will be returning very soon. Nearly 900 km away, the Strait of Gibraltar, the door that has kept the Mediterranean dry for the last 600 thousand years, is opening again. The booming the female is hearing is the floodwaters of the Atlantic, crashing onto the basin floor in quantities unimaginable. In only 10 years, the Mediterranean Sea will return once again, ushering in a new age of ecological abundance and diversity. While the female may not live long enough to fully bask in this new Eden, her young most certainly will, the hardships of their upbringing largely forgotten in a world of plenty. Until then they wait, as the Zanclean Flood begins.

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As the sun climbs higher and higher in the skies, the family of Myotragus continue to feed. These goats are supremely well adapted to the harsh and dry conditions of this region, an area of land that will one day in 5.33 million years be known as the Mediterranean island of Minorca. Their metabolism has evolved to be similar to that of reptiles, allowing them to withstand the brutal heat and their gut is well suited to digesting the tough vegetation. Their hooves give them supreme mobility across the steep slopes of these mountains, making even the sharpest cliff faces a mere triviality for them. As they continue to feed, a low-pitched and deep booming sound attracts the attention of the mother. She looks towards the horizon, and a vast desert interspersed with the occasional mountain peak, greet her. This landscape is the ghostly shadow of what was once a bustling and productive sea, full of islands that housed endless diversity of life. But now the sea is gone, the only trace of its existence the salt that forms these plains. Unbeknownst to her, this golden age will be returning very soon. Nearly 900 km away, the Strait of Gibraltar, the door that has kept the Mediterranean dry for the last 600 thousand years, is opening again. The booming the female is hearing is the floodwaters of the Atlantic, crashing onto the basin floor in quantities unimaginable. In only 10 years, the Mediterranean Sea will return once again, ushering in a new age of ecological abundance and diversity. While the female may not live long enough to fully bask in this new Eden, her young most certainly will, the hardships of their upbringing largely forgotten in a world of plenty. Until then they wait, as the Zanclean Flood begins.