In the past, a number of news outlets have run stories that seemed to imply that octopuses are aliens. As in, the kind from outer space. Yahoo! News ran with the headline “Octopus genetic code reveals ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

An octopus lies amid rocks on the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Oregon. (Photo: OOI-NSF / UW / CSSF) Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think ...

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Some scientists have already made the argument that octopuses might be aliens. While the claim seems a bit out of this world, new research into their brains continues to show just how alien the ...

The premise of Alien: Earth‘s story is that the Weyland-Yutani corporation sent a vessel, the USCSS Maginot, on an expedition lasting more than half a century, to discover and capture five highly ...

The octopus certainly does look strange, with bugged-out eyes, suction-cup tentacles, and the ability to change color for camouflage. But a new paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal posits that ...

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The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more protein-coding genes than even humans Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We ...