The climate was warmer and wetter than it is now, with rivers and scattered woodlands that supported prehistoric animals ... from the nearby Yellowstone volcano slowly suffocated and buried ...

In south-west Poland lies an amazing region known as the Land of Dormant Volcanoes. It’s best known for its fabulous remnants of prehistoric volcanic activity which include a number of former ...

"Without that closed off, you'd be seeing 100-degree temperature air just flowing right through here, ripping in and making this no longer an ice cave," Wallace said ...

An almost unimaginable sequence of events preserved what paleontologist Ian Tattersall calls a fossil of human behavior -- prehistoric walking. Initially, a nearby volcano called Sadiman erupted a ...

The disaster was an eruption of the Yellowstone volcano when it was located in what is now southern Idaho. The hotspot has traveled across North America as the Earth’s crust has moved.