[dr_lew]

The enormous stone totem, now split in two and sitting in the Sicilian Channel between Tunisia and Sicily, was hewed from a rocky outcrop some 300m away when the Mediterranean Sea was still a dry basin.

From what I can gather, the Mediterrean Sea was formed by a massive flood about 5 million years ago. However, the lowering of sea levels by the ice age glaciations is enough to account for the 40m mentioned, so I assume this is the basis for the interpretation of this object, however speculative it might be.

[Vermont Lt]

You mean it got cold, and then warmed up over time? Like all around the globe?

How did the polar bears survive?

//obvious sarcasm