Tag: Greenland
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PBS Eons: What Was Greenland Like When it Was Green
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about 2 million year old DNA from Greenland. It made the front page of the New York Times. Ancient DNA over 2 million years old, retrieved from the frozen dirt of Greenland. It reached back further in time than many scientists used to think was even…
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Greenland’s Mineral Frontier – Thomas Hale
Interesting presentation about the mineral resources of Greenland by Thomas Hale of the University of Delaware, where he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences. Thomas is also an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Melting ice in Greenland is exposing the country’s critical mineral…
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“Cold Bone”: New Dinosaur Species Discovered That Lived on Greenland 214 Million Years Ago
SciTechDaily has a story about a new dinosaur. Called Issi saaneq, which means “Cold Bone”, this animal lived about 214 million years ago during the late Triassic Period in what is now Greenland. Believed to be an ancestor to sauropods, it was medium sized with a long neck, however, it walked on its hind legs. …
