First Ever Animal That Doesn't Breathe Found!

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new unusual animal that was discovered inside salmon that seems to not breathe or use oxygen at all.

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[SpiritualFox]

Q: Why doesn't it breath, Anton?
A: It's incredibly lazy.

🤣 Thanks Anton 👍

[MCsCreations]

The freaking thing looks like those gray aliens from scifi and so on. 😬

[nd-place]

“If you don’t breathe, you can do it even quicker.”

Sounds like a kinky ex.

[MykolaDolgalov]

2:36 "Sedentary type that kinda stays and DOES NOTHING" LOL

[jeremymenning]

_Water Bear/tartigrade:_ I can survive in space...for years.

_Hanneguya:_ That's cute.

[ElyFlova]

2:36 "kinda stays and does nothing"

They are kinda like me... I can relate deeply to them :^)

[VENM]

wow the alienware logo learned to divide its cells!

[animtorfiddler]

This sure sounds like the lectures I got from my mom when she looked in my bedroom and saw that I hadn't moved all day. I had moved... just returned to my favorite spot. ... Hey, the line worked most of the time!

[focusrssteve]

Keep strong in your lockdown, hope you're ok wonderful Anton!

[misakamikoto]

Somewhere out there in the universe: First ever silicon based life that breathes oxygen.

[Simdog]

Antov: hello wonderful person
Subs: no YOU'RE wonderful

[jamiedawson]

ATP- Adenosene TriPhosphate.... My daughter named her hamster that when she was in junior high lol

[factsheet]

6:49 "At some point it just decided to stop breathing altogether and instead just suck everything out of Salmon"
😏😏😏

[Dk-gnup]

How to reproduce quicker ?
Anton: Don't breathe is that your answer! Lol.

[acohen]

As always, watching and listening to your videos is like taking a college class in science and astronomy.  Thank you for uploading for the rest of us to enjoy and to learn !!!

[blundershock]

thank you Anton, you wonderful person, for really top quality vids, i share when i can.

[mittikomon]

is it me or they look like every alien character ever?

[RadicalCaveman]

This is a fascinating discovery, but it is NOT the only known anaerobic animal. From Wikipedia's "Anaerobic organism" page: "In 2010 three species of anaerobic loricifera were discovered in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. They lack mitochondria..." They live in a brine pool, a region with extremely high salt concentration and no oxygen whose water does not mix with the rest of the sea. Loricifera is an obscure phylum of extremely small animals.

[j.jwhitty]

Perhaps these Henneguya salminincola survived Covid-18 700 million years ago and decided that breathing was not a good idea :)

[mosquitobight]

My guess is that they lost the mitochondria when they started reproducing faster than their mitochondria could keep up, so they ended up with offspring that had no mitochondria. As Eukaryotes, their cells would still have the fermentative metabolic pathways that exist outside the mitochondria, that is, the pathways that break down glucose to lactic acid. So basically they've become swimming yeast.