The 5 Times Humanity Almost Went Extinct

You exist by pure luck. Five separate times in human history, our entire species came within a hair of disappearing forever — a supervolcano that blocked out the sun, a mysterious population crash discovered in 2023, the coldest ice age in 100,000 years, a sudden freeze that hit in under a decade, and a migration out of Africa that almost failed completely. Every single person alive today descends from the handful who survived each one.