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“Finding out more about how these relationships developed can contribute to our knowledge of the past, present and future.” Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new species of ancient symbiotic fungus preserved within a 407-million-year-old plant fossil from Scotland. The discovery provides unprecedented three-dimensional insight into one of the earliest known plant–fungus partnerships, known as mycorrhiza. The fossil from the Windyfield Chert, Scotland provides the most detailed evidence to […] https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/15/finding-out-more-about-how-these-relationships-developed-can-contribute-to-our-knowledge-of-the-past-present-and-future/