At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting rest of the world.
for maximum effect, I think you'd want the opening scene to be a timeline / montage: 1997: sample of the 1918 flu virus strain recovered from a grave in Alaska (and thankfully, used to develop a...
for maximum effect, I think you'd want the opening scene to be a timeline / montage:
Really curious how the DNA in the animal fared after spending nearly 50,000 years dormant. I thought DNA would degrade beyond viability after that much time. I know that when you hear people talk...
Really curious how the DNA in the animal fared after spending nearly 50,000 years dormant. I thought DNA would degrade beyond viability after that much time. I know that when you hear people talk about cloning and sequencing ancient DNA this is a challenge often discussed.
So I’m curious if there’s some mechanism here I don’t understand that prevented this from being a problem, or if the worms resurrection/birth was short lived due to its genome being partially missing/corrupted.
DNA has a half life of around 450 years. But in Greenland, they found 450,000-800,000 year old DNA - in the ice. If kept cold and dark, it can survive long past it's expiration date.
DNA has a half life of around 450 years. But in Greenland, they found 450,000-800,000 year old DNA - in the ice. If kept cold and dark, it can survive long past it's expiration date.
This is definitely the first ten minutes of a horror sci-fi movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235448/
– Translated from the german Wikipedia article on this tv series
You've pretty much nailed it with your guess.
Yeah I was about to say, I was pretty sure we'd all go down because of climate change and wars, but nope, prehistoric killer worm swarm it is!
for maximum effect, I think you'd want the opening scene to be a timeline / montage:
1997: sample of the 1918 flu virus strain recovered from a grave in Alaska (and thankfully, used to develop a vaccine)
2016: Anthrax outbreak in Siberia that was likely caused by the thawing of an infected reindeer corpse
2023: 46,000 year old worm brought back to life and produces offspring
2030:
(fade to black)
Really curious how the DNA in the animal fared after spending nearly 50,000 years dormant. I thought DNA would degrade beyond viability after that much time. I know that when you hear people talk about cloning and sequencing ancient DNA this is a challenge often discussed.
So I’m curious if there’s some mechanism here I don’t understand that prevented this from being a problem, or if the worms resurrection/birth was short lived due to its genome being partially missing/corrupted.
DNA has a half life of around 450 years. But in Greenland, they found 450,000-800,000 year old DNA - in the ice. If kept cold and dark, it can survive long past it's expiration date.
I misread the title as "woman".
Ooh, added twist, I like it.