Meet The 'Glacier Mice.' Scientists Can't Figure Out Why They Move.

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In 2006, while hiking around the Root Glacier in Alaska, glaciologist Tim Bartholomaus encountered something strange and unexpected on the ice — dozens of fuzzy, green balls of moss. It turns out, other glaciologists had come across before and lovingly named them "glacier mice."

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2020-06-03 11 min

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