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- huh funny name that. When I hiked a glacier in Norway, dead mice (and other things) were everywhere under the ice. I assumed that's what the title was referring to.by ta93754829
- jökla-mýs is a wonderful name, you gotta love icelandic. A swede might also associate it too "jäkla mys" - god damn cozy!by kaffekaka
- reminds me vaguely of "Sailing Stones"by ck2
- I have found a video (under a minute long) of a backpacking group walking through a herd of glacier mice in Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fHfDrfoJw. I'd love to see a timelapse of glacier mice moving.by networked
- Here in Switzerland when children order shrimp at a restaurant I tell them that they come from the shrimp mines in the glaciers.by comrade1234
- I did a bit of searching, and couldn't find a single timelapse of glacier mice movement. Time for a trip to the mountains with some cameras!by enjrolas
- Always love seeing a link to wikipedia.org on the front page. Pretty much guaranteed to make me go "oh, neat" :)by noncovalence
- Huh
> they have been observed in Alaska, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Uganda and Venezuela
Well, today I learned, Venezuela has glaciers.
Then I googled that, and…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/...
And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.
by jameshart