giants frozen in the permafrost?

[John Bailey]

This is great.

Although size-wise, a quick search gave me: "The genomes of
Mimiviruses and Pandoraviruses, which are some of the largest known
viruses, range from 1 to 2.5 Mb (1 Mb = 1,000,000 base pairs of DNA)"

So not exactly Cthulhu-sized viruses...

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Not exactly a reptilian crystalized giant,  but a very nasty amoeba eating
> giant virus. Oooooooooh.  More Crichtonian than Pynchonesque, except he was
> a global warming skeptic. How big is a giant virus?
> http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/03-4
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