With the frequent occurrence of extreme climates and natural and man-made disasters in recent years, such as last year's locust plague in Africa, Australia's forest fires, the global COVID-19 epidemic, and the recent blizzard disaster in Texas, many people may think that the disasters that have occurred frequently on the earth in recent years are Earth's warning to mankind.

The prehistoric creatures buried in the Arctic permafrost for 57,000 years have also been dug up, which is even more overwhelming, along with viruses that we do not know... Can they spread in large numbers? How lethal is it?

It seems to be unrelated, but in fact everything is inextricably linked

I don’t know if you remember the forest fire in Australia that burned for 7 months from July 2019, releasing more than 350 million tons of carbon dioxide, and NASA has previously claimed that the smoke generated will probably circle the earth for a few weeks. This event is like the butterfly flapping its wings in the butterfly effect: a large amount of smoke and dust floating in the air circulates over the North Pole through the atmospheric circulation, which will affect the reflectivity of the glacier to solar radiation, thereby increasing the amount of sunlight absorbed by the glacier and indirectly Accelerated melting of glaciers.

57,000-year-old gray wolf 'mummy' found

In July 2016, a gold prospector in northwestern Canada found a corpse that looked like a "mummy" wolf cub. The soft tissue, hair and even skin of the corpse were well preserved. Using DNA analysis and carbon dating, the researchers determined that the drow lived about 57,000 years ago, when Earth was in the last ice age.

In December 2020, scientists discovered the carcass of an extinct Ice Age animal, the woolly rhino, in the permafrost of northern Russia. Also in Russia, scientists discovered 40,000-year-old nematodes in glaciers. It can be seen that as the glaciers melt and the permafrost melts more and more, more prehistoric animals and viruses will be discovered.

Underneath the melting glacier lies an unknown ancient virus

Coincidentally, last year scientists discovered plants at an altitude of 6,159 meters in the Himalayas. It must be known that there are almost no plants above 6,000 meters, which means that the temperature in the high Himalayas is rising. Scientists were also overwhelmed by the detection of 33 ancient viruses in thawing permafrost and glaciers, 28 of which had never been seen before.

Western Siberia also suffered from rising temperatures

The glaciers melted, exposing animal carcasses, followed by viruses that had been ambush and frozen under the glaciers for tens of thousands of years. At present, scientists have resurrected many prehistoric viruses in Siberia, including the giant wide-mouthed jar virus, giant virus Mimi virus, Pandora virus, etc. 30,000 years ago.

The gigantic virus was able to protect its genetic material to an almost perfect degree, which greatly increased the virus's ability to survive and resist immune cells. And due to the complex type of genes and extremely high survivability, it may even cause cytokine storms! Once its genetic drift, it erupts in humans with a highly lethal disease. Studies have shown that these viruses frozen in permafrost more than 30,000 years ago can survive in the current climate and remain infectious.

Prehistoric virus may be activated under the right conditions

Scientists have shown that the discovered virus will flow into the river with the melting glaciers or permafrost and come into contact with sunlight and oxygen. If a suitable host cannot be found in a short period of time, it will die soon, and it poses little threat.