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Animals Living Without Oxygen Discovered For First Time

First Posted: 06/08/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:05 PM ET

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Animals that live without oxygen have been discovered for the first time, deep under the Mediterranean Sea.

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Animals that live without oxygen have been discovered for the first time, deep under the Mediterranean Sea. ...
Animals that live without oxygen have been discovered for the first time, deep under the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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09:53 PM on 04/12/2010
Well, throw out the old textbooks. Time to make some revisions. This proves once and for all that what I had suspected all along is true-- that my middle school life sciences teacher was a liar. Can we go back in time and get credit for answering that animals can live without oxygen?
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10:04 AM on 04/09/2010
Dick Cheney spends time in the Mediterranean??
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12:32 PM on 04/10/2010
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Greeks and crowbars...
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08:40 AM on 04/09/2010
On a related topic, there has been research detailing when the Earth's atmosphere first contained oxygen in amounts greater than a trace element, and there has been research detailing when the first animals with bones existed. It is fascinating to see that we have discovered the fossils of fish with backbones from a time before oxygen got above 1% in the atmosphere. It would be interesting to know if there are still areas of the open oceans with very little oxygenated water, such as the deep sea depths, that have continued to support complex animal life.
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At 6 bn km, it's mostly small stuff.
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05:18 AM on 04/09/2010
Wow. Cool.
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02:40 AM on 04/09/2010
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Meh - not news here in L.A. ...
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09:21 PM on 04/08/2010
amazing.
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07:45 PM on 04/08/2010
This discovery of anaerobic multicellular organisms is very important indeed. The implications for the possibility life on other planets is enormous.
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04:22 AM on 04/09/2010
My thoughts precisely. I can't wait 'til we get a closer look under the ice on Europa.
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