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St. John's College, University of Cambridge

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A two million- year-old trunk from a larch tree still stuck in the permafrost within the coastal deposits. The tree was carried to the sea by the rivers that eroded the former forested landscape.

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Professor Svend Funder

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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

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