Zombie Virus: Everything you need to know about the latest findings

A 48,000-year-old "zombie virus" discovered in Siberia, Russia's permafrost region, has been revived by scientists.

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To no one’s surprise, the zombie virus quickly emerged as a Twitter trend.

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The zombie virus had buried under frozen lake in Russia, and it was unearthed by scientists.

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They found over a dozen of archaic viruses from the Siberian permafrost.

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The oldest of them, dubbed as Pandoravirus yedoma, is known to be 48,500 years old.

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Although these viruses have lain dormant for hundreds of millennia, researchers have discovered that they are still contagious.

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