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Ancient DNA shows what Greenland may have looked like 2 million years ago
Not much lives in the northernmost tip of Greenland today. Some lichens and moss survive in the polar desert, but "almost nothing there of any life, of any significance," said evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev. Yet millions of years ago, a much warmer climate supported an ecosystem that was teeming with a wide diversity of life -