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a dramatic breakthrough is transporting
us millions of years back into the past
to before the last ice
age revealing surprising creatures that
thrived when our planet was Far warmer
than it is
today as if by Magic we were seeing the
genetic signatures of these plants and
animals appear bang bang bang fleas
lming Arctic care geese Carib boou a
whole forest ecosystem large po Willow
Spruce Ash cedar trees we're looking at
a long list of organisms from a place
that today is an oxic desm but with the
spectacular discovery of DNA from
Greenland finally a detailed portrait of
this lost world is
emerging and it's even Stranger Than
scientists expected I think the thing
that really blew our minds from the ply
scene is the
camel how could this camel known only by
a few fragments of bone survive so far
north The Living World revealed by the
Greenland DNA gives us some Clues when
you think about camels today it's really
easy to imagine that they evolved to
live in the desert and this is where the
finding of the hierarchic camel is so
mindblowing right because
is not in a desert it's living a
complete opposite to a desert it's in a
forest ever notice how huge a camel's
eye
is well it turns out they have
incredible Vision including night vision
that's pretty useful when it's dark 6
months of the
year one of the uh most dramatic
features of the camel it's the hump it's
actually a specialized fat deposit and
when you think about the importance of
fat energy storage this is something
that's also very important for animals
that survive through harsh
Winters the wide feet of camels you know
it's listed as one of the traits that
helps them walk over sand also would
function well in soft
snow we haven't found camel DNA from
before the Ice Age not
yet but we have now recreated the forest
World they were living in and Natalia's
files tells us they were
there this is a forest that stretched
from Greenland to Canada on solid land
without
barriers we used to believe that ancient
DNA could take you back a few thousand
years today we know we can see millions
of years back in time