Mike Heath

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Everywhere we look for viruses in ice, we find them. As the polar regions melt, creatures from the past are exposed to the modern world. In 2014, researchers found thirteen viruses frozen in the ice of Siberian permafrost. Some of them had been trapped in the ice for almost 50,000 years.
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
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