Octopuses Are Aliens, According to Scientists

Science says that there are some aliens on earth. Octopuses, apparently, are very different from every other animal in the world, so they are the ones, according to unilad.

Research pinpoints the octopus genome , which exhibits "a ridiculously high level of complexity". There are 33,000 protein-coding genes in its body, which overtakes the number in humans.

Dr Clifton Ragsdale said: "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."

The late British zoologist Martin Wells agrees. "In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien," he said.

Moreover, octopus' "prehensile sucker-lined tentacles, highly mobile, camera-like eyes sensitive to polarised light, sophisticated camouflage systems that alter skin colour and patterns, jet-propulsion, three hearts, and the ability to regenerate severed limbs" do make them look rather unfamiliar to living beings as we know them, doesn't it? The "two-spot octopus genome" has 2.7 billion base pairs, which are the chemical units of DNA, with "long stretches of repeated sequences", according to metro.