The largest eruption in the past million years was at Toba in Indonesia. How big was it? It erupted over 3000 cubic kilometers of volcanic debris. 3000 cubic kilometers! That would pave the entirety ...

Ancient super-volcano eruption destroyed ozone layer and caused human bottleneck, research suggests ‘Over time, skin cancers and general DNA damage would have led to population decline,’ says ...

The eruption of a supervolcano is extremely powerful, but also a very rare event. The first happened 25 million years ago, long before humans ever evolved. However, the last happened just 71,000 ...

The molecular clocks of a number of other animals, including tigers and pandas, indicate that they, too, passed through a bottleneck around that time. In short, Toba was the biggest eruption since ...

When Toba erupted 74,000 years ago it was the most powerful volcanic eruption in the history of modern humans, yet if it had any impact at all on our evolution is hotly debated to this day.

Back in the 1990s, scientists theorized that the lingering effects of the Toba eruption created a population bottleneck, reducing the size of Homo sapiens to 10,000 individuals from an effective ...

According to the Toba catastrophe theory, modern human evolution was affected by a recent, large volcanic event. Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages ...

The idea that the Toba Eruption could have nearly wiped out the human race by reducing us to as few as 1,000 breeding pairs has been researched for the past few decades, but new finds at Dhaba ...

Had the eruption at Mount Toba impacted this population, there would have been a gap in production. This suggests the eruption did not disrupt the flow of early humans leaving Africa. Excavation ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Toba Eruption, a cataclysmic event that shrank humanity to a mere 1,300 individuals around 74,000 years ago. This video delves into the Toba Catastrophe Theory ...

Scientists analyzed the remains of two Paleolithic human campsites in South Africa (PP5-6 and VBB) to see whether there were dramatic changes after the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago in Sumatra.