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 ...

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 ...

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 ...