Matt Willemsen<p>Were Neanderthals really killed off by Campi Flegrei, Europe's awakening 'supervolcano'?<br>The volcano beneath Italy erupted 40,000 years ago and had catastrophic impact on Earth's climate — around the same time that the Neanderthals began their slow march to extinction. <br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/were-neanderthals-really-killed-off-by-campi-flegrei-europes-awakening-supervolcano" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/v</span><span class="invisible">olcanos/were-neanderthals-really-killed-off-by-campi-flegrei-europes-awakening-supervolcano</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neanderthals</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/CampiFlegrei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CampiFlegrei</span></a>, <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>'s <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/supervolcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supervolcano</span></a>' <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/40000YA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>40000YA</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a></p>