Ancient Britain

Ancient Britain

Flying Reptile

Flying reptile discovered in Scotland

The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye thanks to its jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore. Researchers said on Tuesday this pterosaur, named Dearc sgiathanach, lived roughly 170 million years ago during the Jurassic Period,

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Rock inscriptions

Stonehenge

It is an ancient, beautiful mystery that enchants all who glimpse at it over the frost on Salisbury Plain while the sun rises bright. No one can quite imagine the picture of hundreds of workers, tirelessly constructing the foreboding structure that would become the Stonehenge as we know it, in Neolithic-era southern England. It turns

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