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Thursday, December 15, 2022

2-million-year-old DNA reveals a lost Arctic world [National Geographic, December 2022]

Title:
2-million-year-old DNA reveals a lost Arctic world
 
Author:
Alejandra Borunda
 
Published: 
National Geographic, 7 December 2022
 
From the article:
Using ancient fragments of DNA—likely the oldest ever successfully analyzed—scientists have carefully reconstructed an “unprecedented” glimpse into an ancient, forested landscape at the roof of the world, says Mikkel Pedersen, a geographer at the University of Copenhagen and an author of the new analysis, published Wednesday in Nature