Conclusion: "Octopuses have alien origins!" say DNA researchers

by Daniel LaPonsie at Damned News

That you, Cthulhu?

Just came across this article at BT.com:

Researchers have found a new map of the octopus genetic code that is so strange that it could be actually be an “alien”.
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“The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities,” said US researcher Dr Clifton Ragsdale, from the University of Chicago.
“The late British zoologist Martin Wells said the octopus is an alien. In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien.”

Now, obviously, they are not in any way suggesting that octopuses are alien in the extraterrestrial sense. They simply have an extremely unique DNA make-up, to say the least.

On the other hand …what if?

Image credit:
“Octopus marginatus” by Nhobgood Nick Hobgood – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 viaWikimedia Commons

Daniel LaPonsie is a writer of fiction and non-fiction with tastes that range from science fiction to the downright weird. He currently lives in an underground bunker somewhere in North America with his wife and children and laptop.

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