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Concern Among Yellowstone National Park Visitors over Animal Behavior: Science Explains It All
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING, JUL 20 – Officials say animal movements reflect normal seasonal migration and no eruption is expected for thousands of years despite 60 earthquakes recorded in June, according to USGS data.
- In July 2025, Scott Whitehead posted videos claiming that bison were fleeing Yellowstone National Park in a mass exodus on July 15, 2025.
- These claims emerged amid widespread social media misinformation but were contradicted by National Park Service spokesperson Linda Veress and others denying large-scale wildlife migration.
- Officials and wildlife experts explained animal movements as normal seasonal patterns expected in summer, unrelated to seismic or volcanic activity under Yellowstone’s supervolcano.
- Whitehead’s bison video received over 600,000 Facebook views and 30,000 Instagram likes, while Veress called the circulating video satirical and likely AI-generated.
- Authorities affirmed that Yellowstone’s volcano shows no signs of imminent eruption and warned that misinformation could mislead the public about the park’s ecology.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that the probability of a super-inruption in Yellowstone in the next century is less than 0.00014% per year.
Yellowstone’s newest known thermal pool is small, ice blue and not yet named
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