Alien beings living on a distant world around another star would look 'just like animals on Earth' and be formed from the same processes, an astrobiologist claims. The zoologist and astrobiologist from the University of Cambridge said this would result in alien creatures that have symmetrical bodies with wings, legs or fins. Drake Equation Written in 1961 by Frank Drake, this attempts to estimate the number of living and communicative alien civilisations in the Milky Way galaxy. It used values for each factor in the Drake equation accepted by many astronomers to predict there are 4,590 alien civilisations. AdvertisementThe book, published in hardback on Wednesday by Viking-Penguin, explores what animals on Earth can reveal about aliens and ourselves.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2021 16:11 UTC