What COULD aliens look like? Forget little green men - life on distant exoplanets may resemble HUMANS, experts say
Daily Mail
February 25, 2-23
Among the wide-ranging answers were features such as big brains, enormous wings and gravity-induced spindly frames, while 'crab or squid-like beasties', jellyfish-esque creatures and aliens that look almost human-like are also a possibility.
The latter might seem surprising given how aliens are often portrayed in popular culture, but some experts think if another intelligent civilisation exists, life could have evolved in a similar way to us.
As one scientist put it, the reason is 'simple physics, plus competition for food and the need to escape predation will favour organisms with similar body plans to those that are successful on Earth'.
Aliens are often depicted as either little green men, bug-eyed creatures
or terrifying monsters intent on wiping out all life on Earth, but this is unlikely to be the case.
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