Oldest DNA on record — 2 million years — reveals Greenland’s lost world
Sediments from Greenland's northernmost tip showed a surprising array of flora and fauna — including mastodons — once lived in the island's Far North.
WASHINGTON — Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago — the oldest on record by far — from sediment at Greenland’s northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.
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