"A bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa."
Sounds like me with a hangover
What was that film where they found these things in the ice...?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/in_depth/7663927.stm
"A bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa."
Sounds like me with a hangover
What was that film where they found these things in the ice...?
"A bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa."
Sounds like me with a hangover
What was that film where they found these things in the ice...?
Sorry - meant for news section 
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Sorry - meant for news section
I did wonder! 
However,
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"Early Earth and other planets didn't have a lot of oxygen on them, so life has evolved to use oxygen in order to get its energy,"
Doesn't seem very logical does it?I suspect this is a misquote in the report.
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The bug's name is partially based on a sentence in Latin from Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth - "Descende, Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges," which translates as: "Descend, Bold Traveller, and attain the centre of the Earth."
I bet that there are a bunch of Entomologists laughing their bottoms off.
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