They don’t have eight arms. If anything, they have eight crazy toes and one foot.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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And surprisingly tasty. It's a complete package.
Super crazy alien monsters from outer space!!!!!!
Dies after a Max of 4 years
The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.
All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.
What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?
slugs and snails are ALSO aliens!
sweating profusely
snailiens
lolol
What if the protooctopus is a common ancestor to the 800 types of cephalopods?
Then why are all those cephalopods so closely related to all the other non-cephalopod molluscs?
Alien cephalopod had sex with molluscs? /s
The best scientific theory is the sexiest one, so yes.
No clear evolutionary path in the fossil record.
...for the creatures that have no bones and only a beak that could even fossilize? Color me SHOCKED their ancestors didn't leave fossils.
You... are looking at a fossil of one. That's what the post is about. I mean, maybe they fossilize less frequent than other animals, but it seems like they do.
Yup. It's not that soft tissue DOESN'T fossilize, it's just that the conditions to do so are much rarer, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.
Not gonna lie, I was assuming even the picture was made up/AI bullshit. Bit of egg on my face there
The sentiment is still correct though, even bone fossils are exceedingly rare. I can’t remember the exact estimate but of all the people alive in the US, archeologists 1 million years from now would be lucky to find 60 human bones. I’m not sure if that included teeth however.
Small discussion about this fossil on Lemmy yesterday:
https://mander.xyz/post/34422423
To recap: that's not the correct age or species. Soft tissues do make fossils. This protooctopus looks different from modern octopi.
Hooray, I've been referenced! Now I'm a real science doer!
I don't think they realize that aquatic based life on earth had several hundred extra million years to evolve before even the most basic bitch fish-frogs crawled out of the primordial pond of orgy water that ended up spawning us
God damn it. I had work to do today and now I'm going to be reading about octopuses instead.
plenty of sea critters have blue blood
horseshoe crab blood (blue) is even widely used to verify disinfection procedures
I read about that. It made me feel bad for the horseshoe crabs.
Resident alien has a funny gag related to this where the alien saw an octopus in a restaurant and the octopus said we've been waiting for you!
And was voiced by Nathan Fillion. Was a great cameo...plus we get Jewel Staite in this season. Just need Adam Baldwin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, Morerna Baccarin, Ron Glass and Sean Maher and we got the crew of serenity back.
I've got some bad news for you about Ron Glass ...
Yea I know, but... maybe like a picture on the wall or something.
Is that even an octopus? Like yeah, it has tentacles, but that doesnt mean its an octopus.
The wiki article has more info, but it's basically one fossil, originally classified as octopus, but that is now retracted and its connection to anything is not known yet.
Oh no, so that falls right into the Reddit trap of, well then it must be alien.
If you're expecting any kind of critical thinking or even the slightest bit of intelligence, then you won't find it in that sub lmao
I used to browse r/SaturnStormCube and the like for occultist story ideas so I'm used to crazy. But this is just full blown stupidity. There was 1 redditor talking about arms, and they said it had 10.
Without reading the title I looked at the image and thought someone was cooking octopus and really really burnt it.
Who is they? Some people here sait the same shit about the same post. And it wasn't even a conspiracy sub.
They taste great though so thanks for coming by.
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