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Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago
AP (via MSN.com) ^ | 07 December 2022 | Maddie Burakoff

Posted on 12/07/2022 6:44:20 PM PST by zeestephen

Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland...With animal fossils hard to come by, the researchers extracted environmental DNA, also known as eDNA, from soil samples..."I wouldn't have, in a million years, expected to find mastodons in northern Greenland," said Love Dalen, a researcher in evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University...

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KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; dna; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; edna; eltaninimpact; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greenland; greennewdeal; helixmakemineadouble; lovedalen; mastodon; mastodons; noahsmalarkey
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1 posted on 12/07/2022 6:44:20 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Plate Tectonics has caused no shortage of Climate Change over the years...


2 posted on 12/07/2022 6:46:33 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: zeestephen

Hogwash.


3 posted on 12/07/2022 6:50:10 PM PST by Fungi
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To: zeestephen

Jane Fonda was there?


4 posted on 12/07/2022 6:50:52 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: zeestephen

so DNA’s shelf life is older than a MickeyD’s fry?

i don’t think so.


5 posted on 12/07/2022 6:51:41 PM PST by dadfly ( )
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To: zeestephen
From: https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/science.adg1729/full/_20221207_on_ednagreenland1.jpg

This is an artist's depiction of Greenland then, an illustration accompanying the article. Notice: no ice, no snow. And we keep hearing how bad it is if the snow melts on Greenland. It looks like the garden of Eden.


6 posted on 12/07/2022 6:53:48 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: zeestephen

I’d prefer mastodon clones over dinosaur clones any day.


7 posted on 12/07/2022 6:56:16 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Alfred Hitchcock got it right...


8 posted on 12/07/2022 7:04:07 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I noticed that when I read this earlier. LOL!
GloBull warming? Time traveling SUV drivers!


9 posted on 12/07/2022 7:16:02 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: zeestephen

“I wouldn’t have, in a million years, expected to find mastodons in northern Greenland,”

Haven’t been paying attention have you?


10 posted on 12/07/2022 7:16:09 PM PST by dljordan
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To: zeestephen

They were busy finding something to keep themselves warm.


11 posted on 12/07/2022 9:22:16 PM PST by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: zeestephen

They found DNA from Helen Thomas?


12 posted on 12/07/2022 9:56:04 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: zeestephen

These people will say and do anything to try to prove the non-existence of God...
Evolution is unproven and unprovable...


13 posted on 12/07/2022 11:30:45 PM PST by Pez149 (Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
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To: zeestephen

They are finding intact DNA but no fossils? Sounds very fake.


14 posted on 12/08/2022 5:45:13 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: zeestephen

So a warmer climate isn’t so bad after all?
To think some people want to block the sun to prevent global warming seems very misguided at the very least.


15 posted on 12/08/2022 6:38:18 AM PST by nuf said (Our Border, Our Choice!)
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To: zeestephen; Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
"I wouldn't have, in a million years, expected to find mastodons in northern Greenland," said Love Dalen, a researcher in evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University...
...y'know, because climate change is all about humans. Thanks zeestephen.

16 posted on 12/08/2022 8:40:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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There are remains of palm trees in Antarctica...............


17 posted on 12/08/2022 8:43:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Them continents can’t keep still.


18 posted on 12/08/2022 9:03:17 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Red Badger
Same vintage, quibble, they're actually beech trees, not palms.

19 posted on 12/08/2022 9:23:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, Palms are on beaches..............


20 posted on 12/08/2022 9:24:29 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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