What is interesting is that there is life on earth that is totally unrelated (no evolutionary conection).
This discovery seems to be another example.
Totally unrelated? Got a citation for that?
Every living organism uses the “Universal Code” or a slight variation of it, that ‘translates’ DNA “genes” into the Amino Acid sequence of a functioning protein molecular machine.
Moreover every living species has similar variations of the same ubiquitous “housekeeping” genes that perform essential cellular functions.
I wish they had said something about its DNA. Is its DNA unrelated to anything else seen on Earth? I’m guessing not. That’s why ‘alien’ was in quotes.