All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Human history stretches so far back in time, it's almost incomprehensible. Just over 70,000 years ago, humanity was ...

Tuscany is famous for many things: rolling vine-covered hillsides, Renaissance masterworks, some of the most celebrated food and wine in the world. What it has never been famous for is volcanoes.

Roughly 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in what is now Sumatra erupted with a force more than 10,000 times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The blast ejected an estimated 2,800 ...

Archaeological evidence from Africa challenges long-held assumptions about humanity's near-extinction during Earth's most powerful volcanic event in over two million years. Scientists are increasingly ...

New insight has emerged on our species’ eastward dispersal out of Africa thanks to a study published in Nature Communications this week. The paper focuses on stone tools found at a site in the Son ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collecting microscopic glass samples at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa. Katherine Elmes If you were lucky 74 ...

Sweden plans to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years, but the author questions whether this is feasible given the uncertainties of human civilization and technological progress over such a long ...

A trio of South African sites contain evidence that early humans ate shellfish, used fire to modify raw materials, and used advanced projectile weapons. Reading time 2 minutes South African caves, key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra's Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth's history, potentially ...