As global temperatures rise and climate change accelerates glaciers and permafrost are melting at unprecedented rates. While ...

The frozen layers of Earth’s permafrost have long been a mystery, hiding secrets from thousands of years ago. Climate change, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An ancient zombie virus has been revived after being frozen for almost 50,000 years.

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...

Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, sampled ice cores from the region, in which they discovered an ancient virus in the frozen caribou feces. The virus, which is thought to be ...

The most famous HERV embedded in human and animal genomes, syncytin, is a gene derived from an ancient retrovirus that plays an important role in the formation of the placenta. Pregnancy in all ...

Pandemics over the course of evolution have led to the integration of viruses into our genome. Westend61via Getty Images ...

John Roehrig died March 8 after a battle with ALS. During his career, he was on the front lines of the U.S. response to West Nile virus.

A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy cosmic events may have had more influence on our planet than we thought.

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...

The most famous HERV embedded in human and animal genomes, syncytin, is a gene derived from an ancient retrovirus that plays an important role in the formation of the placenta. Pregnancy in all ...