For years, social media users have shared images and videos they claimed show Elephant Rock, a naturally formed geological ...

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in southwestern ... also failed to find any rock fragments around the crater to indicate that a meteorite sprayed material away from its landing spot.

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can ...

Tephra is a general term for fragments of volcanic rock and lava that are blasted into the air by explosions or carried upward by hot gases. Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris ...

This story appears in the September 2007 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the first thunderous boom echoed across the plain of Campania, quickly followed by a blistering hail of ...

The volcanic rock on the island makes for great rock climbing ... makes it a special place for nature lovers to enjoy year-round.

Lava is very hot molten or liquid rock, which reaches over 1,000 degrees. So I’ll need to stay at a safe distance! Volcanic ash. Clouds of ash can rise miles into the sky and block out light ...

A view of Ukinrek Maars in Alaska. The eastern maar (front) is typical of volcanic maars in that it is a deep, round crater filled with water. (Image credit: Nye, C. via USGS) However, there are ...