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St. John's College, University of Cambridge

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Close-up of organic material in the coastal deposits. The organic layers show traces of the rich plant flora and insect fauna that lived two million years ago in Kap København in North Greenland.

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Professor Kurt H. Kjær

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These images may be used in press material but at all times in relation to the article “A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA” by Kjaer et al. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y

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