Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

Volcanoes are responsible for some of the greatest bouts of biological devastation in Earth's history. A new study aims to determine whether giant volcanic eruptions are related to BLOBS—mobile basal ...

Last Saturday, the Paris Zoological Park unveiled a new specimen, and even though it’s at the zoo, it’s not an animal. It’s called a slime mold, and it’s probably the coolest organism you’ve never ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The story of life on Earth is also a story about volcanoes—that is, extinction-level volcanic events ...