• Diving Around@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure there’s some worms or something that live by deep sea vents which breathe sulfur not oxygen and are believed to live forever because of this.

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      There’s a bunch of creatures that don’t use oxygen but they’re mostly all prokaryotes, since oxygen metabolism unlocks a shitload of energy you can use for being large and complex.