Aliens among us

A radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens beyond Earth and among us

The enigma of life’s origin continues to baffle scientists, as does the question: Are we earthlings the sole inhabitants of this boundless universe? If Jaime Maussan, a self-proclaimed expert on extraterrestrial beings, who recently put two alleged mummified “alien corpses” on display in the Mexican Congress, were to be believed, then “No”.

Most likely, however, as suspected by multiple scientists, the two small human-like bodies with elongated heads and three-fingered hands are nothing more than a hoax and stunt. Mr Maussan asserted the 1000-year-old mummies were retrieved from Cusco in Peru, and that more than 30 per cent of the specimens’