A dark and rather dirty ice surface stretches from foreground to back ground where some pointy mountains rise into the cloud. The surface is covered in fist-sized balls of moss. Some dark pyramid shaped piles of dirt (actually volcanic ash with an ice core) are rising on the right side of the photo

Contacted b journalist looking for original of this photo I took in 2005 of #glacierMice. #joklamys
The glacier Breiðamerkurjökull has retreated so much, I fear the poor mice may have vanished. Maybe it's worth an expedition to go and look, or even consider transplanting them to save the species?

A dark and rather dirty ice surface stretches from foreground to back ground where some pointy mountains rise into the cloud. The surface is covered in fist-sized balls of moss. Some dark pyramid shaped piles of dirt (actually volcanic ash with an ice core) are rising on the right side of the photo

Contacted by a french journalist looking for the original of a photo I took may back in 2005 of #glacierMice. #joklamys

The glacier itself (Breiðamerkurjökull) has retreated so much, I wonder if the poor mice are still there? I fear there home may have […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

Herds of Mysterious ‘Glacier Mice’ Baffle Scientists These moss balls move in unison, and researchers are okay with not knowing why.

For your #WednesdayWeird, I present glacier mice, proof that Mother Nature likes cute as much as the rest of us. :D www.atlasobscura.com/articles/her... #glaciermice