Loriciferans are so different from other animals that they have their own phylum. Researchers now suggest that some species (one shown) live entirely without oxygen. R. DanovaroMEDITERRANEAN SEDIMENT RESIDENTS Loriciferans were relatively abundant in the sediment pulled from beneath the salty, oxygen-deprived L’Atalante basin, but they didn’t show up in sediment from nearby oxygenated waters.
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