Scientists might finally have worked out what aliens would look like. And it seems they would be shockingly familiar.
Alien life tends to be imagined as strange powerful monsters: either grey humanoids or insect-like killing machines. But they might actually look a lot more like us than we realised, according to pioneering new work by scientists looking to understand what extraterrestrials would actually look like.
The problem with imagining life on other worlds is that unfortunately we've only got one example to go by – our own. So we tend to imagine something that either looks like us or looks like something else on Earth, but there's no guarantee that would be accurate.
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