An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen

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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There is no Mediterranean Ocean

[Anonymous Coward]

There is no Mediterranean Ocean. There is however a Mediterranean Sea.

Re:Strange

[srmalloy]

There are other articles with more coverage -- Live Science, BMC Biology (PDF of 20-page article with pictures available), New Scientist, Nature, and others. The provisional PDF available at BMC Biology is the full article as it was accepted, and details the experimental procedure that confirmed that these were completely anaerobic organisms.

Re:Strange

[theguyfromsaturn]

This probably does not answer your questions, but it covers a bit more details than the original post. Also, if you click on the title, you will link to the source article.

http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2010/04/anaerobic-metazoans.html