Scientists have revived a "zombie" virus they say spent nearly 50,000 years frozen in permafrost, part of a new batch of research that identifies several newly discovered viruses that have been frozen ...

Thawing of frozen landscapes has the potentional to unleash infectious “zombie viruses” that have been locked underground for thousands of years, according to new research. One quarter of the Northern ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

If you’ve been on social media recently, you’ve probably seen headlines and posts about a so-called “zombie” virus revived from permafrost, or ground that constantly stays frozen, after nearly 50,000 ...

An ancient zombie virus has been revived after being frozen for almost 50,000 years. The virus was found along with six others in the Siberian permafrost. The youngest frozen virus clocked in at ...

International scientists are warning that the irreversible thawing of permafrost due to climate change could lead to a new public health threat. In an article posted to the preprint repository bioRxiv ...

Researchers say that thawing Siberian permafrost has exposed "zombie" viruses that have been trapped for centuries beneath the layer of frozen ground and water. According to researchers, 13 previously ...

"The Walking Dead" is full of mysteries, and for most of the series's existence, the origin of the zombie virus was the biggest mystery of all. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and all the other series ...

Out of the 13 primitive viruses that researchers found, the oldest was an amoeba virus found in stoic dormancy under a lake for 48,500 years, the Weather Channel reported. In the 2003 Danny Boyle film ...

The Walking Dead: World Beyond suggests an origin for the zombie virus when flashing back to the start of the apocalypse in Sunday’s episode 107, “Truth or Dare.” When a scavenging Huck (Annet ...