What I find fascinating about this sort of research is that it implies the possibility of finding familiar looking life on other planets; rather than the fancif

What I find fascinating about this sort of research is that it implies the possibility of finding familiar looking life on other planets; rather than the fanciful and deeply alien artistic renderings of hypothetical extraterrestrial life we're usually shown in science shows, we might be better off expecting to see things that look a lot like eels, snakes, crabs, and spiders. And, of course, things that look like fungi and bacteria.