Today the area in North Greenland is a polar desert, but the genetic material, extracted from soil, has uncovered a rich array of plants and animals.
The scientists found genetic traces of elephant-like mastodons, reindeer and geese that roamed among birch and poplar trees, and of marine life including horseshoe crabs and algae.
Jurassic Park anyone? This is always in the back of my mind when I think of melting permafrost, when scientist refer to climate change, which used to be called global warming and before that global cooling and before that, I don't know because I was trying to grow up and be a kid. ;)
Point is, there's always something lying in the permafrost, just waiting to be revealed like the Zombie Virus found in Russia recently.
Really fascinating article on DNA and how it was preserved in the Greenland permafrost.
Two million years ago, North Greenland was much warmer than it is now. The average annual temperatures were about 11-19C hotter.
Today the area in North Greenland is a polar desert, but the genetic material, extracted from soil, has uncovered a rich array of plants and animals.
The scientists found genetic traces of elephant-like mastodons, reindeer and geese that roamed among birch and poplar trees, and of marine life including horseshoe crabs and algae.
Jurassic Park anyone? This is always in the back of my mind when I think of melting permafrost, when scientist refer to climate change, which used to be called global warming and before that global cooling and before that, I don't know because I was trying to grow up and be a kid. ;)
Point is, there's always something lying in the permafrost, just waiting to be revealed like the Zombie Virus found in Russia recently.
Really fascinating article on DNA and how it was preserved in the Greenland permafrost.
Two million years ago, North Greenland was much warmer than it is now. The average annual temperatures were about 11-19C hotter.
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