2-million-year-old DNA reveals a lost Arctic world
The oldest DNA ever analyzed shows that reindeer and mastodons once wandered a nearly unrecognizable Greenland.
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The oldest DNA ever analyzed shows that reindeer and mastodons once wandered a nearly unrecognizable Greenland.
As rising Arctic temperatures cause permafrost to thaw, more ancient creatures will be discovered in the ice — but scientists warn those finds could come at a great cost.
By Laura McQuillan · CBC News Millions of tonnes of carbon and methane, trapped in permafrost for thousands of years, could be released A near-perfectly preserved baby woolly mammoth in Yukon is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, when it comes to finding prehistoric creatures long buried i