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Trees produce fruit and provide shade. According to a study, trees are also capable of self-defense. Researchers have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood from a [...]

They lived long before the age of the dinosaurs - or even flying insects.

They lived long before the age of the dinosaurs - or even flying insects.

These fossils give unique insights into a very important time for plant evolution

An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carla J. Harper, Assistant Professor in Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity, has discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defence in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from sout

An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Carla J. Harper, Assistant Professor in Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity, has discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defence in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland.