The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...

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