A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

When you think of Scotland, you think of moody landscapes, medieval castles and mystical forests. Your thoughts would rarely lead you to beaches up north. However, did you know that Scotland has some ...

Bressay may be hidden in plain sight just across from Lerwick but it’s easily the most rewarding seven-minute ferry ride you’ll ever take ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

RESIDENTS from a quiet village in Perthshire returned home last weekend with a message for the world – Vienna is anything but dull in January ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

Dinosaur footprints are not perfect snapshots of the feet that made them. AI techniques from photon science can help identify ...

Military history expert and TV presenter Dan Snow reviews the most realistic movie battle scenes of all time. Spanning the ...

The amazing Up Helly Aa festival takes place in the Shetland Islands every January and sees more than 1,000 people turn out ...