Polar bears once roamed Scotland during the last Ice Age, new analysis of ancient bones and fossils has suggested. Research ...

Researchers found evidence of fish in the diet of animals that, until now, had been identified as brown bears.

He asserted that the ancient Gaelic Kings of Scotland had been elected and not divinely appointed. Hence they were subject to the law of Scotland and not above it. So, if a monarch broke his or ...

New research has provided further insights into ancient valleys that lie beneath the Scottish landscape. Buried palaeo-valley systems have been studied in parts of England, Wales and the North Sea ...

Meanwhile, little remains of the original Roxburgh. However, there is one Scottish town that has a history going back much ...

Scotland's ancient rainforest is under threat, conservationists have warned. Almost 75,000 acres (30,351ha) of woodland on the west coast is designated Atlantic rainforest because of the rare ...

In a major 6 part series for Radio Scotland Billy Kay explores Scotland’s Black History - Scotland’s contacts with Africa and people of African origin from Roman times through to the present day.

Engineers are starting work to give the historic island of Iona – the cradle of Christianity in Scotland - an ultrafast ...