This is Pithovirus sibericum, a 30,000–40,000-year-old virus that was frozen in ice during the Ice Age and completely disappeared from the outside world. However, scientists discovered it in Siberia in 2014, preserved in permafrost and still alive after thousands of years. It is now being studied.

This is Pithovirus sibericum, a 30,000–40,000-year-old virus that was frozen in ice during the Ice Age and completely disappeared from the outside world. However, scientists discovered it in Siberia in 2014, preserved in permafrost and still alive after thousands of years. It is now being studied.