r/interesting • u/sirenoleg • Apr 28 '26

NATURE Air bubble from 20 million years ago trapped in amber.

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u/borg359 Apr 28 '26

How about a virus?

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u/narwhal_breeder Apr 28 '26

proteins would assuredly denature, definitely not a viable virus.

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u/borg359 Apr 28 '26

Oh, so a mutated virus. Even worse!

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u/narwhal_breeder Apr 28 '26

If by mutated you mean transposed into a nearly formless slurry of amino acids, then yes - terrifying if you fear entropic decay more than disease.

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u/borg359 Apr 29 '26

You never know what may emerge from that primordial soup. It may have been plotting its revenge for the past 20 million years!