Social media is flooded once again with claims that animals are fleeing Yellowstone National Park due to an impending ...

There is no evidence of a mass exodus of animals fleeing Yellowstone, a spokeswoman for the US national park in Wyoming told ...

There's been a lot of people wondering about a possible volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park. Let's talk about it.

A National Park Service spokesperson said animals are not leaving Yellowstone in large numbers, and a volcanic eruption is thousands of years away.

Animals from a variety of species were seen leaving the park in herds, causing fear of an eruption, but were noted as ...

The giant eruptions occur every 600,000 to 800,000 years on average, the USGS says. The last giant eruption at Yellowstone was 631,000 years ago.

"For example, the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake is a caldera formed during an eruption 160,000 years ago, called the Tuff of Bluff Point." Such smaller eruptions could be explosive too.

The giant eruptions occur every 600,000 to 800,000 years on average, the USGS says. The last giant eruption at Yellowstone was 631,000 years ago.

Currently, the annual probability of a volcanic eruption at Yellowstone is estimated to be around 0.001 percent, which Stelten said is "probably an overestimate for the short term." ...

It’s still possible that the northeastern portion of the park could erupt in a massive explosive eruption similar to those that have occurred at Yellowstone in the past 2.1 million years.

But the science states quite simply that no eruption is imminent at Yellowstone and when a real threat does begin to emerge, we’ll start to signs - at an absolute minimum - decades in advance.