The octopuses, with their succulent tentacles, slack body and weird face, are very curious creatures. These animals are beyond intelligent, can "see" with other parts of the body than the eyes, some have the ability to completely "camouflage" themselves in the environment, and others even produce toxins capable of killing a human quickly! On second thought, they have a kind of ... alien way, don't you think?

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For, according to Ciaran McGrath of Express, a team of 33 scientists presented research that suggested that octopuses originated from extraterrestrial beings that came to our planet millions and millions of years ago.

ETs

According to the study, these molluscs came from space in the form of cryogenically preserved eggs and developed rapidly here on Earth between 270 million and 250 million years ago, shortly after a period known as the "Cambrian Explosion."

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This period was marked by the emergence of various life forms on our planet and one of the theories to explain this “explosion” of life around here is that of Panspermia - that is, that life originated elsewhere in the Universe and arrived hitchhike to Earth on space rocks like asteroids, comets and meteorites that bombarded the surface of our planet in the past.

According to Ciaran, the study, which was published in the scientific journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, deals with this period of emergence of new life forms on Earth - and discusses the complexity of octopuses that, as we mentioned in the beginning of the article, are Amazing creatures.

Awesome beings

As the researchers responsible for the study explained, among many "superpowers, " these animals are endowed with bulky brains and a very sophisticated nervous system, incredibly flexible bodies, powerful eyes, and the ability to quickly change shape and color to "disappear" into the eye. have 33, 000 more genes in their genome than humans.

For, according to the study, these characteristics were not all present in other life forms before the emergence of octopuses on Earth. And because these mollusks developed these features quite quickly - evolutionarily speaking - the researchers suggest that a plausible explanation would be that originally the genes that gave octopuses these abilities may all have come from other planets.

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More specifically, the researchers propose that the genes needed for mollusks to develop their capabilities came to our planet through octopus (or even squid) eggs contained in frozen space rocks that collided here hundreds of millions of years ago.

The theory proposed by scientists is undoubtedly quite bold, but we do not know how they would go about proving that octopuses are linked to extraterrestrial beings. Interestingly, on the science fiction side, curiously enough, many famous alien characters seem to have had their appearance inspired by this and other mollusks - had you noticed that?

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