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Siberian Researchers Begin Sampling Ancient Animal Remains For Paleo-Viruses , Report Says © Sputnik / Khamzin
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Scientists from Russia’s Vector Virology Research Center have begun inspecting mummified remains of ancient Siberian animals for primordial viruses, media reported Tuesday.
According to the Siberia Times newspaper, more than 50 samples were taken from the soft tissue of a 4,450-year-old carcass of a horse in the Mammoth Museum of Yakutsk. © Sputnik / Michil Yakovlev
Researchers from Vector and Yakutia’s North-Eastern Federal University will collect samples from a 43,500-year-old woolly mammoth, an elk, dogs and other animals unearthed in the frozen Siberian wilderness.