![Avoid eye contact and back away slowly](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/E247VVNHNMSUGGVSYMPUL6QMW4.jpg?w=640)
![Avoid eye contact and back away slowly](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/E247VVNHNMSUGGVSYMPUL6QMW4.jpg?w=640)
Sure, we’d all love to traipse over to Europa and go hunting for alien lifeforms. But in the meantime, we can enjoy the weirdos that already live right here on Earth. Here are 10 of our favorite Earth-dwelling aliens—organisms so strange they seem otherworldly.
![immortal jellyfish](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/KEYEVS7KDA6CMSRUBOIWVAQGQY.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![You're already doing their work, dummy](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/JCZMUC64DUFFCQZLPZ3TSBPDAU.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![You wish you were "blind" like this bat](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/G5ENKD7W3JZFILPOKCQ3ZEUTCI.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![You... BEE!](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/PPBJ4CKCZ6Q2Q3KH5BXZNBDICM.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![a tardigrade](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/4533BIEDAY57IKVPFJ3SREDDTE.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![platypus](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/10/255HNP6O3C3M6ZWDRTINKOHMYU.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![army ants](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/ZEI6DYBE7LMDNNABCND3XZXHGI.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![mantis shrimp](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/AIEICSYN4P4L34FL3OWSYC5M3Q.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)
![The original desalination plant](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/PTWDJN25BYMG2TQT5ZHRKZ6GDU.jpg?strip=all&quality=95)