You should NEVER go full Hoyle... Wickramasinghe claims alien viruses made octopi...
Link to paper that should never have been published anywhere...
I have a purely physics background, with very little formal education in the life sciences- but it doesn't take a PhD in biology to see that these clowns have a real lack of understanding about the nature of viruses... And this stupidity has persisted in their minds for many decades...
The evolution from squid to octopus is compatible with a suite of genes inserted by extraterrestrial viruses. An alternative extraterrestrial scenario discuused is that a population of cryopreserved octopus embryos soft-landed en mass from space 275 million years ago.
(Actual quote from a "scientific" paper)
(Actual figure from a "scientific" paper)