Mitonuclear match.

[Kai]

Reading this article made me think about this thread and our discussion of alien beings living among us.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/

It's about octopuses. They're mollusks, which are Lophotrochozoans, one of the four major groups of bilaterally symmetrical Metazoa (the other three being Ecdyzoa, which includes nematodes, arthropods and other animals that molt, Platyzoa, which includes rotifers, and platyhelminths, among other things, and Deuterostomia, which includes echinoderms and chordates). Most Lophotrochozoans don't posess nervous systems, and most mollusks don't have anything as developed as cephlapods. We're separated by ~550 million years. So when we study octopuses, given their ability to absorb integrate and communicate information, we are trying to communicate with aliens.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Reading this article made me think about this thread and our discussion of alien beings living among us.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/

It's about octopuses. They're mollusks, which are Lophotrochozoans, one of the four major groups of bilaterally symmetrical Metazoa (the other three being Ecdyzoa, which includes nematodes, arthropods and other animals that molt, Platyzoa, which includes rotifers, and platyhelminths, among other things, and Deuterostomia, which includes echinoderms and chordates). Most Lophotrochozoans don't posess nervous systems, and most mollusks don't have anything as developed as cephlapods. We're separated by ~550 million years. So when we study octopuses, given their ability to absorb integrate and communicate information, we are trying to communicate with aliens.

That was fascinating! I love octopuses.