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a bitterly cold and inhospitable climate, today large parts of north greenland are harsh polar desert, but a new discovery suggests it has not always been so bleak. scientists have been able to turn back the clock two million years to be precise and have found evidence of thriving life. two million years, ago we had this forest and environment with mastodons and reindeer and hares running around in the landscape, together with a lot of plant species. the research was carried out in the northern most part of greenland in an area called the kap koebenhavn formation. 0ften scientists rely on animal fossils for a glimpse into the past but two million year old animal fossils are extremely rare there, so, instead, the team turned to something called environmental dna. this is genetic material shed from plants and animals, like skin cells or droppings, which build up in the surroundings.