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If you Google ‘are octopuses aliens?’ the Google AI snipped says right at the top ‘no, octopuses are not aliens’ and you’d think that would settle it but if you keep scrolling the first scientific article claims they are because octopus DNA is “so vastly different in their genetic makeup that they might as well be considered out of this world.” So, when I recently saw an octopus riding a shark, aka ‘sharktopus,’ I started seeing major ‘alien takeover’ red flags.
I’m only half-joking here. Maybe a little more than half. Because if you asked me which species on earth, if any, was an alien I’d say ‘octopus‘ without skipping a beat. And on top of that, there was a recent U.S. Congressman trying to ‘expose’ a governmental plot to hide alien bases in the oceans… Do you know what lives in the oceans? Octopuses do.
That brings me to this video of an octopus riding a shark. It was filmed a few weeks ago off Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand. The footage of an octopus riding a shark is extremely unusual and experts really cannot make heads or tails of why it might’ve been happening… The easiest answer, of course, is an alien uprising (I’m only still half-joking).
I’m as aware as anyone how the global news moves a mile a second these days. News stories that would have dominated the global discussion for weeks in the past can pop up in the morning and be forgotten by lunch. But how on God’s green earth have we already moved on from the sharkopus?!
An octopus riding a shark, with zero explanation, deserves our attention. What’s next, octopuses riding tuna into battle? Will they strap their tentacles onto orcas and start ramming yachts in the Mediterranean?
If this isn’t a clear-cut ‘training exercise’ being undertaken by octopuses who have DNA so unlike anything on this planet experts are willing to call them alien… Then I don’t know what is.
Let’s revisit that ‘octopuses are aliens’ discussion real quick. New Zealand’s Octopus.org has this to say about the topic: “Octopuses are aliens — or, at least, so vastly different in their genetic makeup that they might as well be considered out of this world. Scientists recently sequenced the first genome in the Octopus Genome Project, a huge undertaking to map out the entire DNA structure of the complex cephalopod. What they found was simply incredible.”
The article goes on to state that octopuses have ~33,000 genes which is 10,000 more than human beings. It then lists how they are able to solve complex tasks, open jars, have huge brains like us, a closed circulatory system, similar structures in our eyes, and more. They’re like us… but not. They’ve got 10,000 more genes… aliens?
Deeper Look At The Octopus Riding A Shark
In a University of Auckland blog post about the sharktopus video, they write “The sharktopus encounter is a reminder of the wonders of the ocean. One of the best things about being a marine scientist is that you never know what you might see next in the sea.”
That is a pretty fancy pants way of saying ‘we have no clue why this octopus was riding a shark.’ And I could be wrong but ‘you never know what you might see next’ has slight hints of terror at the possibility that there’s under-sea alien bases being ran by octopuses who are now taming other sea creatures so they can weaponize them in battle in the future… But that could all be in my head.
The video has been floating around for weeks and according to the University of Auckland’s blog post, it was filmed a long time ago… So why sit on that until now? Why not tell the world what these octopuses are capable of doing? What if there was an octopus uprising and we weren’t prepared with the knowledge that they could ride sharks into battle against us?!
Anyway, I loved the video and the idea that this octopus was feeling dangerous and mounted a shark like someone trying to break a bull in the field. What do you guys think? Let me know in the Facebook comments.
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