Could Giant Viruses Be the Origin of Life on Earth?

National Geographic: Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie were used to finding strange viruses. The married virologists at Aix-Marseille University had made a career of it. But pithovirus, which they discovered in 2013 in a sample of Siberian dirt that had been frozen for more than 30,000 years, was more bizarre than the pair had ever imagined a virus could be. In the world of microbes, viruses are small-notoriously small. Pithovirus is not. The largest virus ever discovered, pithovirus is more massive than......

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