FYI - this story was supposed to be embargoed and only a few sources are leaking details. So tune in tomorrow (presumably) for some better sources! https://twitter.com/starstoofondly/status/130532585089260339...
Also, it is probably panspermia from Eartg too!! Call me dull, but I see 0 chance what so ever that it developed natively. If it were Mars I would have believed it developed naturally... Here? Venus???!!! Panspermia all the way
So maybe life could have had time to develop natively before this event, and then would have migrated to the habitable zone of the atmosphere later.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#:~:text=It....
It would be cool if somehow magically the life detected were native to the planet, but I very, very much doubt it. Panspermia from Earth is the most likely scenario
At this point, I fully embrace that the teams doing the research can't find a natural abiotic explainer for the phosphine simply because there isn't one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Venus#Ancient_liqui...
This is from studies ranging from 2007 to 2016, so it's neither really obsolete or too new.