- Scientists have found a multicellular organism capable of surviving without oxygen.
- The creature, a tiny parasite that lives inside of salmon, doesn’t have the genes for mitochondria, which power our cells and allow for cellular respiration that uses oxygen.
- Researchers still aren’t sure how the creatures are surviving, so this won’t be the last you hear of it.
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Understand how life itself originated on Earth has been a complicated puzzle for scientists. Age-old assumptions about what is required for life to exist have often been questioned and in some cases completely debunked. Now, researchers have discovered that oxygen, which we thought was absolutely crucial for all life on Earth, isn’t… at least for one very unique animal.
The creature, called Henneguya salminicola, is a tiny parasite that lives inside fish, specifically salmon. Researchers have known that the parasite doesn’t require oxygen to survive, and they’re still working on figuring out why.
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