Thursday 5 March 2020

An Animal That Does Not Breath

Image courtesy of Michal Maňas, CC BY 2.5.





Joel Kontinen


This might be a god-sent for evolutionists who try to find live on moons, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa. Life has to be created However, life only come from life. It has to be created.

"Breathing is essential for animals to stay alive.

Or so we thought. In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have now identified the first animal that doesn’t use oxygen to breathe: Henneguya salminicola, an 8-millimeter white parasite that infects the flesh of Chinook salmon. Multicellular organisms use oxygen to produce energy, a process that happens in the mitochondria. This organelle has its own genes for this process, but when scientists looked for them in the parasite, they were completely absent, New Scientist reports. The reason why this animal¬¬ lost the genes to breathe is unclear, but it’s possible it gets its energy from its host."

Source:

Ortega, Rodrigo Pérez. 2020, This is the only known animal that doesn’t need oxygen to survive, Science 26 February.