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The newly analyzed ancient DNA comes from a fossil-rich rock formation in Peary Land called Kap ��ø����Գ󲹱���, which preserves sediments from both land and a shallow ocean-side estuary.

Two million years ago the site of Kap ��ø����Գ󲹱��� 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 ��ø����Գ󲹱��� Formation, which is in the northernmost part of Greenland.

"In fact, from the Kap ��ø����Գ󲹱���, 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 ��ø����Գ󲹱��� Formation, a sediment deposit nearly 100 meters thick that’s tucked in the mouth of a fjord.