15000 year old Viruses Discovered by Scientists In the Ice Of The Tibetan Plateau Of China!
August 5, 2021 Scientists discovered nearly 33 viruses, frozen in the glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau of China. Scientists claim that these viruses somehow survived as they had remained frozen for thousands of years. The findings, published in Microbiome , could help scientists understand how viruses have evolved over centuries. The researchers also created a new, ultra-clean method of analyzing microbes and viruses in ice without contaminating it. The U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers analyzed ice cores from the Guliya ice cap that were collected at high altitudes - the summit of Guliya, where this ice originated, is 22,000 feet above sea level. The ice cores contain layers of ice that accumulate year after year, trapping whatever was in the atmosphere around them at the time each layer froze. Those layers create a timeline that scientists have used to understand climate change, microbes, viruses, and gases throughout history. With the help...