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If you’ve been on social media recently, you’ve probably seen headlines and posts about a so-called “zombie” virus revived from permafrost, or ground that constantly stays frozen, after nearly 50,000 ...

European Researchers warned that climate change could reanimate frozen “zombie viruses” and expose humans to lethal diseases. In November 2022, researchers from France, Germany and Russia announced ...

Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient “zombie” viruses found in Siberia’s permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change’s freakiest eventualities. As CNN reports, the gambit is ...

Editor's note: There has been speculation in the media and via Twitter that DNA fragments of the now-defunct 1918 flu pathogen could be preserved under the permafrost and might pose a potential threat ...

(CNN) -- Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region's permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of ...

Researchers say that thawing Siberian permafrost has exposed “zombie” viruses that have been trapped for centuries beneath the layer of frozen ground and water. According to researchers, 13 previously ...

Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of ...