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No, Octopuses Don t Come From Outer Space | Live Science
Alien viruses from outer space are probably not the cause of animal life on Earth, despite the claims of a new paper written by 33 scientists.

No, Octopuses Don't Come From Outer Space.

I want to believe the conclusions of a new paper that says octopuses are actually space aliens whose frozen eggs first came to Earth aboard an icy meteor.

I want to believe that humans, too, are aliens — the final descendants of an extraterrestrial virus that crashed to Earth 540 million years ago and sent evolution spiraling into wild new directions.

I want to believe that the universe is one giant biosphere, tossing the same building blocks of life from planet to planet in a never-ending game of cosmic hot potato.

I want to believe these things because they are cool and fascinating — but I probably shouldn't.

Because right now, there is still almost no evidence for any of this.

And researchers not involved with this study have serious reservations about its conclusion.

[7 Theories on the Origin of Life] Still, that did not stop a team of 33 authors from publishing a recent peer-reviewed paper that hypothesized all of these things and more.

The paper, published March 13 in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, had a simple if unusual thesis: The Cambrian explosion — that sudden burst of biodiversity during which most modern animal groups first appeared in the fossil record some 540 million years ago — was the direct result of an extraterrestrial virus that crashed to Earth in a meteor impact.

The new paper revives a controversial theory on the origins of life known as the panspermia hypothesis.

First proposed by one of the present study's authors and a colleague in the 1970s, this hypothesis suggests that biological life as we know it did not evolve independently on Earth, but was rather seeded" from life-bearing comets that pummeled our planet at various times throughout history.

These comets could have introduced Earth to novel life-forms that evolved on other planets, including viruses, durable microorganisms like unearthly tardigrades or, as the new study suggests, even fertilized animal eggs from other worlds.

The octopus in the room.

For evidence of the panspermia hypothesis, the authors wrote in their new paper, skeptics need only look to the octopus.

Octopuses have complex nervous systems, camera-like eyes and a capacity for camouflage that evolved suddenly and without precedent in their family tree, according to the study authors.

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