The plant DNA painted a picture of forests dominated by poplar and birch trees. Image. Organic material in the coastal deposits, which showed traces of rich plant flora and insect fauna.

Ancient DNA Paints Picture of What Life Was Like Two Million Years Ago Findings suggest a rich ecosystem with a mix of plants and animals that don’t coexist today Researchers Eske Willerslev and ...

Scientists analyzed environmental DNA from soil samples to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in northern Greenland, finding traces of mastodons.

Deposit Photos. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ... genes called DDM1 clears the way for the specific enzymes that place important inherited chemical markers onto a plant’s new DNA strands.

After an eight-year effort to recover DNA from Greenland’s frozen interior, researchers say they’ve managed to sequence gene fragments from ancient fish, plants, and even a mastodon that lived ...

A bug known as a whitefly received a gene from a plant, and that DNA influx completely changed it in the most ... including 2025’s Best Picture winner. Entertainment. Jacob Siegal. New on ...

Now scientists have found that air quality monitoring stations — which pull in air to test for pollution — also pick up lots of DNA that can reveal what plants and animals have been in the area ...

After extracting DNA from pieces of the filter disks, the scientists were able to identify more than 180 different kinds of plants and animals, said study author Joanne Littlefair, a biologist at ...