![]() It only adds more conjectures to the already overflowing pot of theories that science has birthed over the years. In fact, nothing in the paper’s summary really helps us better understand the history of life on our planet. Because so much of the evidence is not definitive, this thesis only adds to the mystery surrounding the origin of life. However, he said that this isn’t how science advances. In his review, Baverstock stated that there is indeed a lot of evidence that makes the thesis plausible. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, and a mantle. Keith Baverstock, a medical researcher with the University of Eastern Finland, reviewed the paper. True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting these criteria. But this paper fails to put itself above any of the other theories we have out there. Sure, we’re slowly discovering more about the universe. Or even whether life exists beyond our own planet. After all, there’s still a lot that we don’t know about the origin of life. It is, honestly, an exciting idea, that octopuses are from space. Raising eyebrows Image source: Andrea Izzotti/Adobe ![]() However, this is perhaps one of the first times that we’ve seen scientists claiming that octopuses are from space. Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Weirder Than We Could Have Ever Imagined Nature 01 March 2019 By Signe Dean (Olga Visavi/Shutterstock) Just when we thought octopuses couldn't be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet. As Stephen Fleischfresser points out in a post about the paper from 2018, the theory of panspermia has been around since Ancient Greece. The idea that life originated beyond Earth isn’t exactly a new one. The authors of the paper say that the octopus and other creatures benefit from biological features that appear to have been derived from “some type of pre-existence.” ![]() “Thus the possibility that cryopreserved squid and/or octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted,” the paper reads. The paper itself claims that certain cephalopods like octopuses, squid, and others arrived on the planet by falling from space, frozen in a kind of stasis. Where things start to get really interesting, though, is when the paper starts to discuss the arrival of cephalopods. Paper claims octopuses are from space Image source: diveivanov/Adobe ![]()
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