Summit living isn’t a problem for this tiny mouse ^11.6%

Science News - By Erin Garcia de Jesús - 7/9/2026, 6:06 PM

Overconfidence Bias 31.3% - Hasty Generalization 20.7% - Confirmation Bias 20%

It’s not easy living the high life. Take it from the Andean leaf-The mice. Evolutionary biologist Jay Storz of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and colleagues have summited many Andean peaks in search of small mammals, including during a 2020 excursion that uncovered the Andean leaf-eared mouse as a world record holder. Excursions are... more