The very first manned mission to Mars was a success, but nobody had anticipated that there were actually latent lifeforms which had been living there long before the very first humans from Earth had ever reached it. This life form lives primarily in the form of an amorphous goo that doesn't take on any particular shape or form – that is, until it comes into contact with the DNA of another sentient creature.

Scientists do not know what the species wants or if it's even aware of what it does, but from the latest documented cases of the first human interactions with the species, nearl... Show more