"They have lost their tissue, their nerve cells, their muscles, everything... And now we find they have lost their ability to breathe." Stephen Douglas AtkinsonA new study has discovered that the fish parasite H. salminicola is the only known animal with no mitochondrial DNA. As mammals who rely on a constant supply of oxygen in order to produce energy, it’s difficult to think of animal life without the need to breathe.

Many are familiar with the snakelike basilisk from the Harry Potter series, but the ancient legend of this serpent king describes a monster much different from the one that the young wizard encountered in the Chamber of Secrets.Called the “king of serpents,” the basilisk has slithered through terrifying legend for thousands of years, from Roman times to its modern depiction in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This mythological monster is said to possess deadly powers, most famously its ability to kill victims with a single, lethal glance.

"In my heart, Garlic is irreplaceable... [But] Garlic didn't leave anything for future generations, so I could only choose to clone."Yan Cong/The New York TimesGarlic, who is a little less than two months old, is China’s first cloned cat. For pet owners, the loss of a furry friend can be devastating. But now, advances in technology have allowed grieving pet parents to reclaim their lost animals — by cloning them.

They sold the boy, now just nine, to dark web pedophiles on at least 50 different occasions.THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty ImagesThe defendants, Christian L (right) and Berrin T (fourth from right), face sentencing in Freiburg, Germany on Aug. 7. A woman in Germany — identified in accordance with German privacy law only as Berrin T — who sold her own son to pedophiles on the dark web on at least 50 occasions was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months in jail by a German court in the city of Freiburg on Aug.

David Ferrie was a rabid anti-communist who allegedly knew Lee Harvey Oswald and had shadowy connections to the CIA, which has led some to speculate that he conspired to kill JFK.Bettmann/Getty ImagesAn undated mugshot of David Ferrie. For most of his life, David Ferrie struck those who knew him as an oddball. Bouncing from job to job, attempting to conceal his alopecia with a wig and fake eyebrows, Ferrie didn’t accomplish much by the time he died at the age of 47.