10 Deadly Prehistoric Disasters That Shaped Human History

Long before any city, any king, any written word, the planet kept trying to wipe us out — and a few times it almost succeeded. In this one I go through ten prehistoric disasters that nearly ended the human story before it even got going: a volcano that may have cut us down to a few thousand people, a comet that flipped the planet back into the ice age overnight, whole countries swallowed by the sea, and a green Sahara that died and accidentally built ancient Egypt. Some of these you've probably never heard of, and honestly that's what makes them so unsettling. Every single one of us is here because a handful of survivors somehow kept going through ash, flood, and freezing dark. Stick around to the end for number one — it's the one almost nobody talks about, and it nearly erased two human species at once. If you're into lost worlds, ancient mysteries, and the stuff history books skip over, hit subscribe so you don't miss the next one.