Fossil Leaf Miners

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The fossil record clearly shows insects have always been insects.

In a recent study, researchers led by biologist Richard J. Knecht, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, wrote:

[We] describe an endophytic [an organism that lives within a plant] trace fossil found on a Carboniferous seed-fern leaf that represents the earliest indication of internal feeding within a leaf. The 312-million-year-old Carb… More…

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