ancient dna    dna isolation    dna sequence analysis    haplogroups    haplotypes    mitochondrial dna    sequence analysis    teeth   

ancient creatures    arctic waters    arctic’s natural heritagethat    attention of mads peter heide-jørgensen    beluga    beluga’s mouth    brief digression    chemical composition of those weird teeth    closest relatives    creature’s teeth    eline lorenzen    fellow subsistence hunters    female grizzly    first genetic evidence    fluky merger    half mix    helical tusks    hybrid    intervening decades    inuit subsistence hunter    jens larsen    larsen’s new kills    larsen’s permission    late 1980s    latter name    lower jaws    male narwhal’s tusk    males    minuscule amounts of dna    mitochondrial dna    modern humans    narluga    narwhal    narwhal mother    narwhal-esque    narwhals    natural history museum of denmark    own prospects    polar bear    polar bears    secondary set    skulls    species    strange whales    strangest part of the narluga    thick sea ice    time of year    united states geological survey    western coast of greenland.he    years of hunting