Ancient viruses dating back over 40,000 years found in Tibet ice. What their genomes tell us

Ice core samples from the Tibetan plateau region have revealed over 1700 ancient viruses, with the oldest dating back over 40,000 years. Their genomes hold the secret to their survival. In ThePrint #̦PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings and implications.

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[hardeeprajput]

Ye science series band nahi honi chaiye. Me apko jaror support karunaga. Aap new tech pe video bana sakte ho (space or electronics etc)

[P.B...]

Interesting study. Thanks for covering it.

[Science_spirituality]

Print is the only Indian media source that has credible science journalists. Excellent work and more power to you

[vikaskhanna]

Amazing discovery....to secure our future generations we must look into our past fossils and learn to adapt, innovate, create new medicinal Ji very well covered years महात्मा बुद्ध came and gave the world lesson on how to reach the stage of enlightenment is way way beyond

[handyman]

It's the need of the hour to collect as much core samples as possible before the ice melt away. Thanks for the informative video.

[thegoat]

You are so cute. I didn't pay attention to a single word you spoke 🥺🥺 i was busy admiring your beauty ❤🥰

[obhutara]

Can you please share the link to the pegboard behind you? I really want to buy it

[EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

all this melting ice is revealing lots, including forests from 1000 years ago when there was less ice than today ... :-(

[HumanFirst]

Bhumika pednekar looks so different in this video 😅😅

[khaalis]

Sandhya hope youre getting adequate sleep bro

[Drganguli]

One should be extremely careful with ancient viruses

[lbbgkjm]

What about bacteria 🦠?
Could any be revived ?

[Krishnan]

Anybody remembering a Hollywood movie predicting about an ancient deadly virus outbreak due to melting ice in artic or antartica but I don't remember is name.

Good forbid these events should never happen

[Unknown-yv]

I thought viruses needed a living host to stay alive?

[NCM-xyow]

It will tell you that they are not Indians. Lol

[superuser]

lol say what... before homo sapiens were homo sapiens, thats much before 41k yrs

[xrqiccq]

40, 000 yrs not ancient in any way, 40 million or 400 million is.