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 ...

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 ...

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 Toba supervolcano was the biggest explosive eruption of the last 2.5 million years. And humans were around to see it, or at least feel its effects! But what were those effects?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The explosion of Indonesia’s Toba volcano was the largest eruption of the last 2 million years. The volcano coughed up some 2,000 to 3,000 cubic kilometers of ash, enough to fill almost three ...