All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago. Human history stretches so far back in time, it's almost incomprehensible. Just ...

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 ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...

Discover the shocking truth about Lake Toba, the supervolcano that's more formidable than Yellowstone. This fascinating documentary dives into the cataclysmic eruption that nearly altered human ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

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In 2005, career civil servant Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang became the first district leader of Samosir, home to Lake Toba, the largest lake in Indonesia and largest volcanic lake in the world. After ...

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A planned office and retail development next to the Los Angeles Chargers’ new headquarters is instead going to become a wet and wild hotspot for surfers. An affiliate of billionaire Vinny Smith’s Toba ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...