A cluster of rocks nearby appeared to be leaning toward the northwest, which scientists speculated could have been caused by the force of ancient floods.

A number of human skeletons were found in the caves here, thought to be the remains of people trapped during an ancient flood.

It looked like the shell of an immense sea-creature stranded by the waves of some ancient flood.

Stories of a gre-at ancient flood pervade the mythology of hundreds of cultures.

There are signs of ancient floods on Mars, but evidence for water now exists mainly in icy soil and thin clouds.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods.

Tracking data showed the craft headed for its planned destination, a broad plain where ancient floods presumably deposited rocks bearing clues to early Martian history.

The more rounded ones appeared to have been eroded as they tumbled from the highlands in ancient floods.

Indeed, he proposes that the myths about ancient floods, common to many cultures, owe their origins to this process.

The island Spiral had selected was shaped like a vast teardrop, its steep, layered sides polished to smoothness by ancient floods.