Pompeii sat near the foot of Mount Vesuvius (Picture: Getty) The eruption of Vesuvius that famously destroyed Pompeii, Italy, almost 2,000 years ago first released a wave of air so hot it turned ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ash cloud that it turned victims' brains into glass, according to a new study. Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass ...

The puzzle of how a 120-million-year-old animal graveyard in China formed may have been solved. Scientists believe that the creatures from the lower Cretaceous era were instantly killed by volcanic ...

After an eruption, DIY cushions of gas help searing torrents of gas, ash, and rock spread miles from their source within a matter of minutes. Pyroclastic flows contain a deadly combination of hot rock ...

An unexpectedly large explosive eruption from one of the largest Indonesia volcanoes has ended killing over a dozen people after pyroclastic flows roared down the mountain's slopes. Located on the ...

The fossils of a dinosaur (l) and two primitive birds (m,r) show the creatures locked in their death throes The puzzle of how a 120-million-year-old animal graveyard in China formed may have been ...