[PookztA]

First Animals to Live Without Oxygen Discovered
ScienceDaily.com
April 7th, 2010
link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100407094450.htm

“Deep under the Mediterranean Sea, small animals have been discovered that live their entire lives without oxygen and surrounded by 'poisonous' sulphides. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology report the existence of multicellular organisms (new members of the group Loricifera), showing that they are alive, metabolically active, and apparently reproducing in spite of a complete absence of oxygen.”

[PookztA]

one quick thing. I believe that single-celled organisms which did not need oxygen had already been discovered, but these are multi-cellular organisms that are not plants, so this seems like a big discovery.

[Pauldo]

cool

[esmokah]

i think we found a successor to the human race

[Nameless One]

Yes, the news is that it is a multi-cellular animal. Plenty of one-celled creatures with vastly different metabolisms exist.

[PookztA]

Yes, the news is that it is a multi-cellular animal. Plenty of one-celled creatures with vastly different metabolisms exist.

thanks for confirming this. definitely cool news in my opinion!

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