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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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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: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.