(Reuters) -It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history ... small mammals and flying reptiles called pterosaurs. This time period predates the earliest known bird fossils.

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

The discovery marks the first known member of a new genus and is expected to provide important clues for studying the evolutionary process of pterosaurs. The fossil, discovered in 1996 ...

Researchers led by the University of Glasgow in Scotland have identified a Late Upper Paleolithic site in the far north of ...

KUMAMOTO (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur ...

Green bonds from the Scottish Government could pay for new ScotRail trains, trade union leaders have claimed. SNP ministers have been urged to use “green bonds and the Scottish Government's ...

Staff at Scottish Water will walk out on a 48-hour strike tomorrow in a long-running dispute with bosses at the publicly-owned company over pay. Members of three trade unions - Unison, Unite and ...

Lithic artifacts discovered on the west coast of the Scottish mainland were previously regarded as isolated and short-lived, insufficient to suggest sustained settlement. Then came the tanged ...

Unite represents 500 workers at the company (Jordan Pettitt/PA) Postponed strike action by workers at Scottish Water is set to resume, after a union said the company had failed to make its members ...

For that to happen they would need to beat Celtic for the first time in 30 attempts which would also give them confidence ahead of facing the Hoops again in the Scottish Cup final later this month.

The deal will cost the Scottish Government an extra £191 million, and also comes with an 'inflation guarantee', which would ensure pay increases will always stay at least 1 per cent above the ...

Scottish football is introducing a ban on transgender women playing in women's football, Sky News understands. The updated policy goes beyond global governing body FIFA, which has been conducting ...