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48,500-year-old viruses have been found, frozen in permafrost
Scientists have discovered never-before-seen viruses that thrive in sunlit oceans from pole to pole and infect plankton. They dubbed the newfound microbes ‘mirusviruses’, ‘mirus’ meaning ‘strange’ in Latin.
The researchers concluded that mirusviruses belong to a large group of viruses called Duplodnaviria,
