The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south ... The central Altar Stone was made of a different rock but always assumed to have ...

EVER since the discovery of Silurian fossils in the rocks of North-West Sutherland, it has been recognised that in that region lies the key to the structure of the Scottish Highlands. Accordingly ...

This may seem strange when we compare modern day Scotland to conditions on Mars now, but billions of years ago when the rocks where formed, the two climates would not have been so different.

Harry Young, a geology enthusiast from Glasgow, Scotland, has spent three decades meticulously collecting rocks to create a geologically accurate map of his home country. Starting in 1992, Harry’s ...

Austrian rock climber Barbara Zangerl has repeated Achemine, the E9 trad climb at Dumbarton Rock established by Dave MacLeod in 2001 and famous for being Scotland’s first E9. Dumbarton Rock is nestled ...

Satellite image of Earth displayed the North American continent (top) and the South American continent (bottom). (Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — After following a trail of crumbs left behind in ...