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Animals That Can Live Without Oxygen Discovered, Aliens Basically Guaranteed to Exist Now

| Thursday, April 8, 2010
Scientists have just discovered the first multicellular animals that can survive entirely without oxygen. They live in the L'Atalante Basin in the Mediterranean Sea, a place with salt brine so thick it doesn't mix with oxygen-containing waters above.

This is pretty crazy stuff. Previously, it was thought that only single-celled life could exist in such inhospitable places, but this proves otherwise.

Read more: Gizmode
Read more: BMC Biology

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