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Abhijeet Satani on Instagram: "Comment “ALIENS” to get the full research paper in your DMs! ⁠ Every living thing needs oxygen to survive, right? Not anymore. ⁠ Meet Henneguya salminicola, a tiny parasite living in salmon that has no mitochondrial DNA. That means it doesn’t breathe. It doesn’t use oxygen. It doesn’t even make its own energy. Instead, it steals energy directly from its host’s cells. This is the first-ever multicellular organism that lives entirely without oxygen. ⁠ Why does this m