During a 34-day expedition off the isolated Phoenix Islands, an island located more than 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) northeast of Sydney, Australia, marine biologists discovered the elusive glass octopus (Vitreledonella richardi).
Glass octopuses, like glass frogs and certain comb jellies, are almost totally transparent, with just their cylindrical eyes, optic nerve, and digestive tract looking opaque. The expedition crew reported two encounters with the glass octopus, which is an astonishing number given that scientists previously had to learn about them by studying fragments of them in the digestive contents of their predators.
Yep. As Dick Algire noted during the Crash at Corona project, the alien species conducts DNA tinkering to create the most outrageous but survivable creatures.
Earth is a laboratory full of alien created life.