World’s Oldest Virus May Be Revived
In a new paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed, the researchers describe how they detected and resuscitated 13 viruses from samples collected from Russia’s territory. These viruses are thought to have descended from 5 different organisms believed to have evolved from a common parent virus.
Scientists, who revived the 48,500-year-old virus, brought 3 more viruses back to life thanks to 27 thousand-year-old frozen mammoth excrement and frozen soils containing mammoth wool. These viruses have been named: Pithovirus Mammoth, Pandoravirus Mammoth, and Megavirus Mammoth.
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