Mysterious mouse mummies found in Mars-like conditions on Andes mountain peaks

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Mysterious mouse mummies found in Mars-like conditions on Andes mountain peaks
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A total of 13 mouse mummies have been recently discovered in the Andean mountains, at elevations once believed to be too high to host any mammal. and vegetation hundreds and sometimes thousands of meters below the mountain tops, the summits of the Andes mountains maintain an extremely harsh environment.Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and the United Statesof 6,739 metersThe discovery of the living mouse spurred Storz to conduct expeditions at 21 different volcanoes.

Furthermore, the environment has been described to be Mars-like. In 2021, NASA researchers had studied the environment in efforts to “understand how the building blocks of life might respond to Martian conditions over time,” The team of researchers are currently conducting research on 31 live-trapped mice, including the record-holder mouse, to attempt to understand how the species can survive in the extreme conditions, Storz said. The research will also include analyses of their gut contents to find what the mice have been eating.

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