Ancient ancestor of the bacteria that causes plague found in 5,000-year-old human remains
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 17:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In an ancient grave in Sweden, scientists have unearthed the oldest known strain of a deadly bacteria that has killed millions of people over thousands of years. They call it Yersinia pestis. You may know it as the plague. The new discovery suggests that the microscopic bacteria has been wiping...