DNA from skull links Ice Age girl to Native Americans alive today

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The divers called her Naia, for “water nymph,” because they discovered her teenage remains in a dark, underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. She had been hidden there for more than 12,000 years — along with the bones of dozens of extinct Ice Age beasts — and divers quickly spotted her...

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