An international team of paleontologists made the discovery after unearthing the remains of a specimen near Elgol on the Isle of Skye at the tail end of an expedition. In fact, according to the ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the ...

The Scots pines that are thought to have largely covered the country thousands of years ago are greatly reduced, but just how big the forest memorialized in Roman texts was is not clear. A view of ...

Archaeologists in Scotland may have finally solved the mystery of how ancient Egyptian artifacts that were unearthed in school grounds between 1952 and 1984 became buried there. When you purchase ...

Stonehenge is among the most iconic locations in England, but it may have a wee bit of Scottish ancestry. Previous analysis of the rocks that comprise Stonehenge indicate they had been sourced from ...

A fossil discovered on the Isle of Skye has been revealed as a new species of Jurassic reptile which was an ancient ancestor to lizards and snakes. An international team of researchers, which included ...

An undergraduate student was startled after a finely carved ancient head rolled out during a recent excavation – and seemed to smile back at her. The discovery, made at Skaill Farm on the Scottish ...

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