An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen

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An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 7, 2010 @07:25AM from the besides-me dept.

Julie188 writes "Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above."

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Re:Strange by CorporateSuit · 2010-04-07 07:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Or how a bucket of these might taste! They live in brine, are from the sea... Imagine these on french fries and potato chips!

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Far more impressive by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-07 07:41 · Score: 1, Funny

Since these animals live underwater, this means they must also have found water without oxygen!
Re:Strange by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2010-04-07 07:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Or how a bucket of these might taste! They live in brine, are from the sea... Imagine these on french fries and potato chips!
Why were Futurama, Fry and anchovies the first things that immediately came to my mind when reading this?

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Re:Been there...done that! by Hognoxious · 2010-04-07 08:11 · Score: 5, Funny

The key part is multicellular. As in what your brain isn't.

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Re:It is an entrenched thought by Locke2005 · 2010-04-07 08:12 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm bi. Does that have any effect on the frequency that you spend the night alone in your mom's basement? If it does, I know some slashdotters that may be willing to give it the old college try...

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Re:Mediterranean Mystery by mindbrane · 2010-04-07 08:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Sorry I just read the linked to page. Do Not Go There. Again Sorry. Try the Miracle Planet Episode. So sorry...

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Re:There is no Mediterranean Ocean by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-07 08:39 · Score: 1, Funny

And I believe you're not allowed to have more than seven seas.
Re:Strange by Jello+B. · 2010-04-07 08:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Ha ha ha, the phrase "french fries" was at one point replaced with the phrase "freedom fries" and you referenced this in your comment. Your wit astounds me.
Re:Strange by noidentity · 2010-04-07 09:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Of course, the exo-biologists (and geeks here on Slashdot) will make the connection, but I'm hardly surprised TFA didn't. Me, I'm no longer surprised to hear that there are such organisms -- the longer we have known about "extremophiles" the more it makes it fairly obvious that critters adapt to all sorts of condition, and quite likely originated in them.
Yes, I've learned about a life form that can live without sunlight, members of the opposite sex, and surive entirely on pizza and soda pop. There's even a website devoted to this life form, but I forget the name right now.
Re:There is no Mediterranean Ocean by oldhack · 2010-04-07 09:23 · Score: 2, Funny

Oh the Mediterranean Ocean, where the Jumbo Shrimps frolic happily.

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Re:What's the big deal by Yosho · 2010-04-07 13:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Technically, zombies unlive without oxygen.

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