Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland. Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss by ...

With bulging eyes, an elongated mouth and feet that oozed resin, a newly identified fossil insect is so different from anything alive today that it needed to be placed in its own, extinct family. With ...

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 ...