Past sea level has varied by somewhat more than a hundred metres. This is primarily due to the growth and decay of ice sheets (mostly in the northern hemisphere) with water evaporated from the sea. The Mediterranean Basin's gradual growth as the Neotethys basin, begun in the Jurassic, did not suddenly affect ocean levels. While the Mediterranean was forming during the past 100 million years, the average ocean level was generally 200 metres above current levels. However, the largest known example of marine flooding was when the Atlantic breached the Strait of Gibraltar at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis about 5.2
Under the Sea The song was parodied on the TV show "The Simpsons" in the episode "Homer Badman," in a sequence where Homer Simpson imagines living under water (eating all of the characters from "The Little Mermaid") to escape the protesters and media circus who have accused him of sexually harassing a college coed. The song in part inspired the song "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted", which also had music by Menken. On a 2011 episode of "Saturday Night Live" hosted by Tina Fey, a mermaid princess (Fey) sings another version called "Below the Waves" with her sea-animal friends: a crab resembling