Death by irony: The mystery of the mouse that died of smoke inhalation, but went nowhere near a fire
Monday, July 13, 2020 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
I looked through the microscope at the insides of a dead smoky mouse, and could barely believe my eyes. Thousands of tiny smoke particles lined its lungs. But the mouse had been kept more than 50 kilometers from the nearest bushfires. How could this be?