The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface of Mars due to their thin atmosphere and freezing temperatures. At their extreme elevations of more than 6,000 meters above sea level, experts had concluded that mammalian life simply wasn’t possible. But researchers reporting October 23 in the journal Current Biology on their discovery of mummified mice in those tough environs now expand the physiologic limits of vertebrate life on Earth.
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Source: Phys.org