A leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis vaccarum) found near the summit of Llullaillaco Marcial Quiroga-Carmona
The environment near the summit of Llullaillaco — a massive Andean volcano straddling the border of Argentina and Chile — is hostile to animal life: perpetually frigid, exceptionally dry and oxygen poor. But scientists found mice there in 2020, and their latest research adds to evidence that the tiny rodents may actually make the highest reaches of the volcanic peak their home.
A couple of years ago, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and at the Austral University of Chile in Valdivia, along with…
Article amended on 29 April 2022
We clarified the researchers involved in the collection and analysis of the mice
