SCOTTISH HISTORY SET IN STONE

A collection of Scottish fossils, which solve the mystery of how vertebrate life came to move from water to land, will be displayed in a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh entitled Fossil Hunters: Unearthing the Mystery of Life on Land. These groundbreaking finds from the Scottish Borders fill a major gap in our understanding of evolution. Until recently, there was very little fossil evidence of life on land during the early Carboniferous period, around 345-360 million years ago. 19 February – 14 August 2016, www.nms.ac.uk