20 Animal Species Most Likely to Be Aliens

The idea that aliens are little gray men with huge black eyes and bulbous heads is so commonly accepted that it represents extraterrestrial life on the most important symbolic language we have (the emoji keyboard), but it’s almost certainly wrong. It probably stems from an episode of a ‘60s TV show, for one thing, and there’s no reason to believe something that evolved on a completely different planet would look so humanoid. Hell, there are tons of species on this planet that look nothing like humans.

In fact, some of those species are so weird that you wouldn’t be altogether surprised to find out they didn’t come from this planet. It would be a pretty cunning plan on the aliens’ part: simply plant one of their own among us and wait for Darwin to catalog it. They could spy on us as freely as they like, especially if we think they’re very cute. Then again, being cute and cuddly might also work against their goals.

There are a lot of factors to consider, which is why user stefanke asked r/AskReddit, “If it was discovered that one animal species had actually been aliens that have been spying on Earth this entire time, what species would you expect it to be?”

Here’s who their fellow Redditors thought could be out-of-this-world…