Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

21 JULY 2021

Like the start of a horror movie, ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of now-melting permafrost: from incredibly preserved extinct megafauna like the woolly rhino, to the 40,000-year-old remains of a giant wolf, and bacteria over 750,000 years old.