One of the largest eruptions in Earth’s history could have wiped out humans. This is how scientists say some survived

About 74,000 years ago, Mount Toba in Sumatra experienced a super eruption, one of the largest in Earth's history, potentially causing a massive disruption to the world's climate.

Some scientists have suspected that a volcanic winter resulting from the eruption was a shift large enough to wipe out most early humans, due to genetic evidence suggesting that the human population declined sharply. But now a groundbreaking study of an archaeological site in northwestern Ethiopia once inhabited by early modern humans ...