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This article is fascinating. It discusses Henneguya salminicola, the first animal ever found that doesn’t need oxygen to survive. This discovery challenges our understanding of multicellular life and has implications for extraterrestrial organisms.

#science #lifeforms #organisms #space #parasite

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-first-animal-ever-found-that-doesnt-need-oxygen-to-survive

This Is The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive

Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable.

ScienceAlert
Jun 23, 2024 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadJadeRobinJun 23, 2024

@Webwasp Though from reading the article, I understood that its ancestor was a jellyfish that did need oxygen and that's how it was complex, but it shed the ability to breathe as it transitioned into a fish parasite.

Not as exciting as something that never needed oxygen, but still pretty cool.