Discovery Of World's Oldest DNA Breaks Record By One Million Years
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Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA were found in Ice Age sediment in northern Greenland. Using cutting-edge technology, researchers discovered the fragments are one million years older than the previous record for DNA sampled from a Siberian mammoth bone. The discovery was made by a team…
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