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Scientists Found Evidence of the Biggest Disaster in Human History

Long-form16:00People & BlogsPublished Sep 3, 2026, 6:45 PM · 7w ago
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Join my Substack, where the ideas go further than YouTube lets me take them: https://michaelbutton.substack.com/ 74,000 years ago, humanity may have come terrifyingly close to disappearing. Scientists thought the Toba supervolcano was responsible, but new archaeological evidence has shattered that explanation. So what really happened to us? Follow the show on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://x.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption# https://geographical.co.uk/science-environment/explainer-the-toba-supervolcano-and-the-biggest-eruption-in-human-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-st.-helens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa https://youtu.be/Nj1ds5JsyGE?t=903 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43377960 https://www.johnhawks.net/p/the-so-called-toba-bottleneck-didnt-happen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355515
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