Melting ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic could release a deadly 'zombie virus' and start the next pandemic, scientists have warned. Pictured: Scientists walk over the thawing Greenland icecap ...

A reanimated virus In 2014, Claverie and his team reanimated a virus from permafrost that had been dormant for 30,000 years by introducing it into cultured cells. He studied a virus that targeted ...

Scientists have revived a 'zombie' virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost. This is a computer-enhanced microphoto of Pithovirus sibericum that was isolated from a 30,000-year-old ...

Scientists revived a 48,500-year-old "zombie" virus from permafrost and found it to be infectious. The virus was tested on amoebas but could indicate more dangerous viruses are lurking in permafrost.

The “zombie” virus, found in the upper layer of the Arctic permafrost, has been frozen for an estimated 48,500 years, but warmer temperatures in the Arctic are starting to melt the permafrost ...

As CNN reports, the gambit is being conducted by French medical and genomics researcher Jean-Michel Claverie, who's testing whether or not a 48,500-year-old "zombie" virus he found could be ...