New Electric Life Forms Found That Live On Pure Energy

Biologists have discovered a new life form. Electric bacteria
that live on pure energy. Unlike any other life on Earth they
use energy in it's purest form, they eat and breathe electrons.
They harvest these electrons from rocks and metals.

While eating electricity may seem strange, the flow of current is central
to all life. Organisms require electrons to make and store energy.
Humans and other organisms get electrons from food and expel them
with our breath.

The discovery of these electricity eating bacteria shows that some
basic forms of life can do away with middlemen and handle energy in
it's purest form, electrons harvested from the surface of minerals.
Kenneth Nealson of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
says “It is truly foreign, you know, in a sense, alien.”