{"id":102879,"date":"2020-02-26T05:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-find-the-first-ever-animal-that-doesnt-need-oxygen-to-survive"},"modified":"2020-02-26T05:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:22:55","slug":"scientists-find-the-first-ever-animal-that-doesnt-need-oxygen-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-find-the-first-ever-animal-that-doesnt-need-oxygen-to-survive","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find The First-Ever Animal That Doesn\u2019t Need Oxygen to Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-the-first-ever-animal-that-doesnt-need-oxygen-to-survive3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bizarre it is.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might need to rethink that last one.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have just discovered that a jellyfish-like parasite doesn\u2019t have a mitochondrial genome \u2014 the first multicellular organism known to have this absence. That means it doesn\u2019t breathe; in fact, it lives its life completely free of oxygen dependency.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery isn\u2019t just changing our understanding of how life can work here on Earth \u2014 it could also have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre it is. Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live. Except we might need to rethink that last one. Scientists have just discovered that a jellyfish-like parasite doesn\u2019t have a mitochondrial genome [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}