divingaround,

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.

FrostyTheDoo,

Core takeaway: huff sulfur, live forever

fox,

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.

plinky,
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Making new food chain: fluorine-oxidizer lifeforms > oxygen-oxidizer lifeforms > nitrogen-oxidizer lifeforms > BN based lifeforms > silicon based lifeforms > germanium lifeforms

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