DNA from two 31,000-year-old milk teeth found near Yana River revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age. The finding was part of a wider study which also discovered 10,000-year-old human remains in another site in Siberia are genetically related to Native Americans, the first time such close genetic links were discovered outside of the US.

Two teeth belonging to children buried deep in a remote northeastern Siberia dig site have revealed a previously unknown group of people residing there during the most recent Ice Age.

DNA from two 31,000-year-old milk teeth found near Yana River revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age. The finding was part of a wider study which also discovered 10,000-year-old human remains in another site in Siberia are genetically related to Native Americans, the first time such close genetic links were discovered outside of the US.

Two teeth belonging to children buried deep in a remote northeastern Siberia dig site have revealed a previously unknown group of people residing there during the most recent Ice Age.