Curiosity Science

Friday, July 19, 2013

The world’s largest virus was recently discovered in Chilean and Australian waters, and researchers gave it the name of pandoravirus. The virus, which doesn’t pose a threat to human health, opens up a host of questions about the origins of life on Earth, as only 7% of their genes match those existing in databases.



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