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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…

"These glaciers were formed gradually, and along with dust and gases, many, many viruses were also deposited in that ice," said lead author Zhi-Ping Zhong, a researcher at The Ohio State…

New York, July 21 Scientists have found viruses nearly 15,000-years-old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most…