The Rhynie Chert fossil deposit in Scotland is just over 400 million years old and reveals secrets of life’s conquest of the land How life made the move onto land is one of the big questions for ...

A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story of how Earth’s first plants rose from ground-hugging mats to upright forms ...

AN ENIGMATIC Pictish artefact is at the centre of a custody battle between the residents of the village where it was unearthed and the local authority headquarters where it is on display. Did you know ...

The discoveries made around Rhynie include a ceramic mould for making metal jewellery A tiny Aberdeenshire community was once a royal Pictish power base with trade links to continental Europe, ...

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