Scientists find 2-million year-old DNA in Greenland

Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 7, 2022

Scientists in Greenland announced Wednesday they had found DNA dating back two million years - the oldest ever extracted - in sediment from the Ice Age, opening a new chapter in paleogenetics. "We are breaking the barrier of what we thought we could reach in terms of genetic studies," said Mikkel Winther Pedersen, co-author of a new study published in science journal Nature. "It was lo