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Scientists Discovered a New Creature That Exists at the Fringes of Life

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one complicate matters.

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The origin of life on planet Earth always generated curiosity among people, but especially within the scientific world. However, a group of Japanese researchers discovered an organism that defies the boundaries of the living and the dead.This is a finding made by a team from Tsukuba University, Japan, in which they analyzed genetic material from marine plankton and found DNA sequences that did not match any known category. According to what the …

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Popular Mechanics broke the news in on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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