{"id":72983,"date":"2014-03-06T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=72983"},"modified":"2014-03-06T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:03:58","slug":"scientists-dig-up-giant-virus-more-than-30000-years-old-in-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=72983","title":{"rendered":"Scientists dig up giant virus more than 30,000 years old in Siberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have unearthed a giant virus more than 30,000 years old from the frozen soil in a remote region of Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>While this ancient virus is harmless to people, the scientists behind the discovery warn that the discovery suggests that the thawing of permafrost in polar regions, as a result of either climate change or mining, could bring threats to human health.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient virus, named Pithovirus sibericum, infects amoebas, not humans or animals.<\/p>\n<p>It survived in the Siberian ice from a period when woolly mammoths and saber-tooth cats roamed the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Its discovery was reported by the researchers, from French and Russian institutions, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/02\/26\/1320670111.abstract?sid=b5f03bb8-eb12-4e53-b560-57962435d25f\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> published this week by the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have unearthed a giant virus more than 30,000 years old from the frozen soil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}