So, there was some Truth (albeit Pre-Historic) to Greenland’s name after all! It was not always this cold. Earth has gone from hot to cold and back again.. and it will keep going back and forth all the while.
An international team of researchers recovered ancient DNA from the bottom of an ice core that indicates the presence of pine, yew and alder trees as well as insects.
The researchers, led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, say the findings are the first direct proof that there was forest in southern Greenland. Included were genetic traces of butterflies, moths, flies and beetles, they said. The material was recovered from cores drilled through ice 2 kilometres thick at a site called Dye 3 in south central Greenland. Ice cores from another site farther north, 3 kilometres deep, did not yield any DNA.
Experts who recovered the oldest plant DNA on record said the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is believed. The samples suggest the temperature probably reached 10 degrees Celcius in the summer and -17 C in the winter.
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Chris Hitchens asks in this article "How did a nation Cricket and fish-and-chips to Burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?". Good question! But wrong analysis! During the 1980′s and 90′s the European countries like UK, Germany and the North Americans like Canada and the US, encouraged and gave home – and LET the Terrorists function and launch attacks on India and elsewhere. Khalistanis, Kashmiri Jehadis, LTTE.. all prospered there!! An Air India plane was blown up by Khalistanis based in Canada but werent taken to task or handed over to India! Similarly they also worked freely in these countries.. so now that Frankenstein monster has turned on its master! I used to keep wondering during the last two decades – why were these countries so masochistic?
The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died — and at such a young age — remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
I had mentioned about the 
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