Are octopuses aliens? A new research paper claims that octopuses are actually aliens from outer space. The paper is titled "Titled Cause of the Cambrian Explosion ¨C Terrestrial or Cosmic?" and was published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
The paper highlights how life on Earth may have begun due to cosmic rain of retroviruses that fell from space. These retroviruses added new DNA sequences to Earth's terrestrial genomes. What happened next drove mutagenic changes on Earth.
While a lot of this does make sense, the paper starts to get freaky while referring to octopuses. According to the paper, cephalopods like octopuses and squids actually fell to Earth from space. These marine animals were frozen in space in a state of stasis of sorts.
Unfortunately, the paper only posits that this may have happened. It simply proposes it as a legit theory among hundred others about the origins of life on Earth. Others have attempted to prove the same but there is truly no evidence for the same.
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In his review of the paper, Keith Kaverstock from the University of Eastern Finland stated how a lot of evidence adds to the plausibility of this idea. But none of it is definitive enough to suggest that it 100% happened.
Even then, every attempt to understand the beginning of life on Earth brings us closer to the truth. Octopuses and squids may indeed be from outer space - perhaps we'll find out in the times to come.
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In all fairness, all life actually did come from outer space - in the sense that directly or indirectly elements that are found in space built Earth and its all organisms.
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References
Hawkins, J. (2022, January 26). New scientific paper claims octopuses are actually aliens from outer space. BGR.?