Octopuses will be soon considered as aliens.
Yes you heard right! Scientists have declared that octopuses are aliens.
Scientists recently sequenced the first genome in the Octopus genome project, a huge undertaking to find out the compex DNA structure of the cephalopod. And what they further discover was incredible.
University of Chicago took this project and chose California two-spot octopus for this project. Soon they found that a group at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan is also working to break down the genome. So the two forces combined together and unlocked many mysteries about the octopuses.
Octopuses have 33,000 genes, roughly 10,000 more than a human. This alone sets it apart from any other invertebrate in the world. The results were published in the recent science journal.
