A peculiar cluster of fossils was retrieved from the Green River Formation in Utah back in 1969 – the 47-million-year-old leaves of an “alien plant” that was thought to be an unusual member ...

Only two known specimens of Othniophyton elongatum, which translates to “alien plant,” have ever been found, and this latest analysis revealed that the species wasn’t related to any known ...

and some might even include plants. But for Michael Levin, Ph.D., all of those definitions woefully undercount the intelligences, or as he phrases them, “alien minds,” that surround us.