So-called 'Methuselah microbes' can remain dormant in the soil and the bodies of frozen animals for tens of thousands of years. Scientists have managed to revive some of these ancient diseases in ...

Ancient “zombie viruses ” frozen in melting Arctic permafrost could fuel a new pandemic if unleashed by climate change, scientists have warned. Global heating is enabling increased human activity in ...

Experts have found these so-called 'Methuselah microbes' can remain dormant in the soil and the bodies of frozen animals, like mammoths, for tens of thousands of years.

These so-called 'Methuselah microbes' can remain dormant in the soil and the bodies of frozen animals for tens of thousands of years. But as the climate warms and the permafrost thaws, scientists ...