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(unranked): | Virus
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Species: | Pandoravirus yedoma
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Pandoravirus yedoma, or P. yedoma, is a virus which originated 48,500 years ago. It was found in the deep Siberian permafrost in Russia.
It was revived by French scientists.[1] The French National Centre for Scientific Research has revived more than a dozen prehistoric viruses from the Siberian permafrost.[2]