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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

If you were searching for a life form, unlike anything known to science, where would you look?

Scientists at Charles University in Prague, they looked in the poop of a pet chinchilla.

They were isolating a lot of, a lot of various strains from various environments, including their own pets.

Anna Karankovska, an evolutionary biologist who collaborated on the work. She is now at the University

of British Columbia. Scientists like to isolate things from everywhere where is possible.

They found a relative of the parasite Giardia, called monocercerecominoides. It's eukaryotic, meaning it has

organelles and a nucleus enveloping its DNA, just like our cells, or the ones in plants or fungi,

but unlike bacteria, which don't have those things. And upon closer inspection, the new critter

was different from every other eukaryote known to science,

because it's missing a key organelle.

It seems to have no mitochondria.

You probably learned in biology class that mitochondria, let's say it all together,

are the powerhouses of the cell.

They charge up energy-rich molecules when oxygen's around, but they do other stuff too,

like manufacture certain essential proteins. This newly discovered microbe, and others that live in

low-oxygen environments, use different oxygen-free pathways to make energy. But they usually

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