Researchers have reanimated an ancient, giant virus from 30,000-year-old Siberian permafrost that is almost not of this world--well, the world as we know it now, anyway. “Sixty percent of its gene content doesn’t resemble anything on earth,” reported one of the study's authors.
More on the following links:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/science/out-of-siberian-ice-a-virus-revived.html?ref=science&_r=0
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39325/title/Ancient-Giant-Virus-Discovered/
