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Of course we know we've been around for 2 million years. It's nice to be confirmed now.

It wasn't human DNA found..

Mastodons in Greenland is also a cool takeaway from this!

This a interesting read, Thank you.

I just did a lab using NGS too and we did it on 4500 yr old Icelandic DNA to figure what someone "could" have look like then. So to see that was used for 2 mil year old DNA is fascinating.

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Congratulations to Kurt and Eske

What an awesome read. Amazing to think of that ecosystem with familiar and unfamiliar organisms.

But also, we need to get a handle on climate change.

..it was my DNA found!

Wait. You’re a Siberian Mammoth?

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Article is 90% about doomsday prophesies. They’ve been working on it since 2006 and what we have is: some species existed 2M years ago that we thought didn’t and better look at this deeper as the end of the world is coming.
Thanks for that. It would be nice to read an article about science which isn’t almost entirely about climate change, record appears to have been stuck on that, over and over, for a number of years now. What I took from it is that temperatures were really high then. I presume they had an industrial revolution before which causes it. Nonetheless, eat bugs, stay in your local zone and stay nice and protein deprived and cold - makes for compliant little citizens.

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