The Face Of First Contact: What Aliens Look Like

Just one possibility (Image: c.20thC.Fox/Everett/Rex Features)

From New Scientist:

TENTACLED monsters, pale skinny humanoids, shimmery beings of pure energy... When it comes to the question of what alien life forms might look like, we are free to let our imagination roam. The science-in-waiting of extraterrestrial anatomy has yet to acquire its first piece of data, so nobody knows what features we will behold if and when humans and aliens come face-to-face. Or face to squirmy something.

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