Maybe. It's not impossible. Or something like tardigrades, or microbes.
The definite tone of the title is pretty much clickbait
Fermi Paradox Theory: life in the universe is either rare(outside of the tardigrades flying around) or intelligent life is too short lived to have any overlap. If we’ve only had the technology to identify life elsewhere for a few hundred years against the last 14 billion years, what are the odds another civilization exists at the exact same time in a place we could find them? Even if humans exist for 100k years that’s still such a tiny sliver of time in the cosmos. It’s no wonder we’re not finding anyone. It’s either that or the Dark Forest doing its thing.