#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🏔️🐭 Researchers collected 167 Andean leaf-eared #mice from sea level to the #volcano summits of the central #Andes, over 6,700 meters up, then exposed them to simulated thin air in the lab.

The highland mice turned out to use #oxygen more efficiently in their skeletal #muscle and generate more body heat than their lowland relatives. Genome sequencing also showed adaptations for detoxifying toxins in the very #plants they eat.

👉 https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/these-mice-live-on-volcano-summits-at-extreme-elevations-study-finds-how/

#adaptation #wildlife #biology #science #evolution #ecology #mammals #nature #extremophiles #genetics #rodents

Simultaneous #aerobic and #anaerobic #respiration in a Yellowstone #thermophile challenges scientific norms

#mightymicrobes #extremophiles #chemolithotroph #genomic #metabolism #bacteria #archea #funded_by_NASA #funded_by_us

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-simultaneous-aerobic-anaerobic-respiration-yellowstone.html