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

Published: June 3, 2020, 8 a.m.

b'In 2006, while hiking around the Root Glacier in Alaska, glaciologist Tim Bartholomaus encountered something strange and unexpected on the ice \\u2014 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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