Volcanoes are scary and they are destructive with the capability to transform a landscape at any given moment. They’ve ended entire ancient civilizations and they’ve decimated modern endeavors but ...

Extinct volcanoes are hard to study – we never see them erupt. Using a unique experimental technique, we were able to recreate a certain type of extinct volcano in a lab, learning more about the magma ...

From a glacial lake in Galway to a private island in the Irish Sea, here are five extinct volcanoes in Ireland that now make for epic hikes. With its glorious landscape and variety of nature trails, ...

The evidence adds to other signs, such as earthquakes, pointing to possible Martian volcanic movement. Imagery has suggested ...

The 260-million-year-old Emeishan volcanic province of southwest China overlies and is interbedded with Middle Permian carbonates that contain a record of the Guadalupian mass extinction. Sections in ...

The last eruption of Greece’s Methana volcano was around 250 B.C.E. Ever since that event, which was recorded by the Greek historian Strabo, the mountain has lurked silently, just across the Saronic ...

Volcanoes in India are a fascinating yet rare geological phenomenon. These natural formations result from the movement of molten rock beneath the Earth's crust. While some volcanoes in India remain ...

Researchers say they have found more concrete evidence of the volcanic cause of the largest mass extinction of life. Their research looked at two discrete eruption events: one that was previously ...

The end of the Triassic Period (∼201.5 million years ago) witnessed one of the largest mass extinctions of animal life known from Earth history. This extinction is suggested to have coincided with and ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

About 252 million years ago, Earth experienced the most severe mass extinction in its history. An estimated 81% to 94% of marine animal species disappeared, while ecosystems on land also suffered a ...