15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice

(Ohio State University) Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained frozen, are unlike any viruses that have been cataloged to date.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 20, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news