Scientists Plan On Resurrecting A 30,000-Year-Old Giant Virus

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Electron microscopy image of the Pithovirus discovered in the same 30,000-year-old sample of the newly described Milliovirus. Julia Bartoli & Chantal Abergel, IGS, CNRS/AMU

Discovered frozen in the permafrost of Siberia, scientists will attempt to reanimate a long extinct 30,000-year-old “giant” virus. Found buried 30 meters (100 feet) deep in the frozen soil, this could be the second time that the team of researchers will reawaken a prehistoric virus.