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#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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.

    👉 news.mongabay.com/short-articl

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