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København
/ købənˈhaun /
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The newly analyzed ancient DNA comes from a fossil-rich rock formation in Peary Land called Kap København, which preserves sediments from both land and a shallow ocean-side estuary.
Two million years ago the site of Kap København would have been a forested coastline where a river flowed into an estuary, Willerslev says.
The research was conducted in an area called the Kap København Formation, which is in the northernmost part of Greenland.
"In fact, from the Kap København, the only animals that have ever been discovered through macro fossils are a hare's tooth and a dung beetle. So people had no idea what kind of fauna was there back then," explained Prof Willerslev.
The researchers focused on the Kap København Formation, a sediment deposit nearly 100 meters thick that’s tucked in the mouth of a fjord.
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