Are octopuses really native to Earth? Scientists may be right, multiple studies suggest

Hundreds of years ago, mankind finally entered the industrial age from the industrial age. The advent of science and technology has brought new opportunities to mankind. It took us only 200 years to achieve a huge leap.

With the help of science and technology, human beings have made major breakthroughs once only looking up at the fantasy starry sky. With the help of science and technology, human beings got rid of the shackles of the earth's gravity, entered the starry sky, stood in the universe, and we saw the dark, cold and lonely universe.

The universe that is really presented to us is different from what the ancients imagined. In the imagination of the ancients, the universe should be very lively and beautiful, but this is not what is really presented to us. So far, we have not found any shadow of extraterrestrial life in the universe. Loneliness and death are still the main themes of the universe.

So there are no other life planets in the universe besides the earth? Scientists don't think so. We must know that the vast scale of the universe is beyond our imagination. Whether it is the scale of the universe or the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years, the existence of extraterrestrial life is basically inevitable. The reason why it was not discovered is mainly because the scale of the universe is too exaggerated, and the scientific and technological strength of human beings is still very weak, and it is impossible to conduct interstellar voyages and truly go out of the solar system to explore.

In fact, this is the same as the fantasy of the ancients standing by the sea. It is believed that people who lived by the sea thousands of years ago often stood by the sea and watched the endless ocean, and wondered whether there would be other human beings by the sea. However, due to the lack of advanced modeling technology and navigation technology at that time, it was impossible to truly explore the ocean, and naturally it was impossible to discover the existence of several other continents.

Human beings now go out of the universe to see the entire universe. In fact, it is the same principle as the ancients stood on the beach and looked at the entire ocean. We also fantasize about the existence of extraterrestrial life, but because we cannot conduct interstellar voyages, we naturally cannot go deep into the universe to explore the existence of life.

Although humans have not yet been able to explore extraterrestrial life, this does not prevent us from speculating about extraterrestrial life. In the eyes of scientists, life evolved from different planetary environments may also be very different. The organisms above, due to their common origin, have many similarities in various aspects such as genes.

Moreover, the life of aliens may be very different from the life of the earth in terms of genes and other aspects. If there is alien life on the earth, I believe that it is not difficult to find the huge difference between them through the comparison of various aspects. Is there alien life on Earth? For this, scientists have no clear answer.

Although scientists have not yet determined whether there is alien life on Earth, scientists still have some questions about some special creatures, such as the mollusk octopus that we are all familiar with.

For octopus, I believe my friends are not unfamiliar. It is a marine creature. There are shadows of octopus survival in different depths of the sea. Even in the deep sea of ​​several kilometers, there are still some huge octopuses. Therefore, octopuses play a pivotal role in the marine biological system. They look weak and easy to bully, but in fact, octopuses are also a tyrant in the ocean, and they can often defeat the weak.

Regarding speculation that octopuses may be alien life, as early as 2015, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner published a paper in the journal "Nature", saying that the genes of octopuses are similar to those of other organisms on earth. very different.

On March 13, 2018, a paper was published in the famous academic journal "Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology" with the title "The Cause of the Cambrian Explosion". It is an academic paper by 33 biologists that focuses on the peculiarities of octopuses, also making the same point as Sydney Brenner, that octopuses may not be indigenous to the earth, but from outer space.

In the article, scientists speculate that 570 million years ago, an ice comet brought octopus seeds to the earth, and octopus seeds took root and sprouted in the ocean. After more than 500 million years of evolution, octopuses look like today's octopuses. Why do many scientists suspect that octopuses are not native to Earth, but from space?

As we said before, different planetary environments will evolve different life forms, and aliens and terrestrial creatures will definitely be different in many ways, because the original origins of alien life and terrestrial life are different, then octopus and terrestrial life. What is the fundamental difference between millions of lives? Mainly reflected in the following aspects.

Octopus has three hearts.

You heard that right, octopuses do have three hearts, which is very different from creatures on Earth. As we all know, in the earth's biosphere, the more complex and advanced life has only one heart, because these creatures have a common origin and have many similarities in the path of evolution.

Moreover, in the earth's biosphere, only a simple creature like a crab has three hearts. In addition, any complex and advanced creature has only one heart. Moreover, octopuses are higher-level creatures. If they are aborigines on earth, they should theoretically have only one heart, not three.

The octopus has three hearts, and nature has many benefits for it. Imagine if human beings had three hearts, our physical fitness would be greatly improved. The heart is the engine of living things. The stronger the power, the stronger the organism's ability to survive. The three hearts of the octopus have their own functions, and it can be said that the division of labor is very clear.

Second, octopuses have a well-developed brain.

According to the survey, there are more than 500 million neurons in the brain of octopus. In addition, it has many unique sensory organs, which together with neurons form an alternative nervous system. Therefore, the thinking ability of octopus far exceeds that of ordinary animals.

In addition, the octopus brain has two memory systems, one for the brain and the other for the large number of tentacles directly. Each tentacle is equivalent to an independent nervous system, so the octopus can do it with one heart .

After a lot of research, scientists found that octopus is a very intelligent mollusk with thinking ability. If you use the wisdom of marine life to rank, the number one is not the dolphin, but the strange octopus. It is precisely because the octopus has a high IQ that it can dominate the ocean.

Third, the genome of octopuses is more complex than that of humans.

Scientists have discovered through research that the complexity of the octopus genome has reached an incredible level. They have 33,638 protein codes, compared with only 21,000 in humans. The large amount of protein coding also enables octopuses to quickly adapt to various complex environments, so they can survive from more than 500 million years ago to the present.

Through the understanding of the above three points, I believe that friends have also seen the difference in octopuses. If the ocean in the future will produce intelligent life, who is the most likely? It is believed that many scientists will think of octopus as a creature. It does have many special features, especially the information at the genetic level, which makes more and more scientists suspect that octopus may be extraterrestrial life.