Bizarre New Study Suggests Octopuses Came From Outer Space
By Jonathan O`Callaghan
15 May 2018, 17:57
Octopuses are weird. Some would say even out of this world. And if you can't explain something it might as well be aliens, right?
That's what a mindbogglingly controversial paper in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology has claimed. It says octopuses (not octopi) are so complex, they can only be explained by extraterrestrial life. Spoiler: they can't.
The paper includes a whopping 33 researchers (although notably zero zoologists) including a chap called Chandra Wickramasinghe. He's a proponent of the idea of directed panspermia – that life on our planet began when it was seeded by alien microbes – and he pops up a lot. He’s tried to prove it in the past, without success. There is no evidence for such a theory being true.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/new-study-suggests-evidence-that-octopuses-came-from-outer-space/
