List of life forms

A life form is an entity or being that is living or alive.^[1][2] This is a list of articles that relate to physical, hypothetical, alleged, religious, or fictional life forms.

Contents 1 Fictional 2 Scientific 3 Hypothetical life 4 Artificial and engineered 5 Origin of the universe and life 6 Encounters with animate beings subject to skepticism 7 Animate beings subject to skepticism 8 Folklore, legendary, and mythological 9 Religious, spiritual, occult, and philosophical 10 Qualities, attributes, and terms 11 Issues 12 See also 13 References

Fictional

• Anthropomorphism
• Alien invasion
• Amorphous creature
• Extraterrestrials in fiction
• List of fictional extraterrestrials
• Lists of fictional species
• List of types of beings in science fiction
• Hypothetical types of biochemistry in fiction
• UFOs in fiction
• Cosmic entity
• Cyborgs in fiction
• Cybernetic revolt
• Fantasy
• Races in fantasy
• Funny animal
• Kaiju
• Monster
• Mutant (fictional)
• Science fiction
• Superhuman
• Uplift (science fiction)
• List of fictional cyborgs
• List of fictional robots and androids
• List of fictional artificial intelligences
• List of fictional living planets
• List of films featuring extraterrestrials
• List of first appearances in Marvel Comics publications
• Fictional human races (category)
• Human-derived fictional species (category)
• Lists of fictional species (category)
• Fictional life forms (category)
• Fictional extraterrestrial characters (category)

Also:

• Character (arts)
• Persona
• Speculative fiction

Scientific

• Animal
• Alpha taxonomy
• Biochemistry
• Biological classification
• Biology
• Carbon-based life
• Eusociality
• Evolutionary biology
• Extremophiles
• Fossil
• Fungus
• Human
• Life
• Metamorphosis
• Microorganism
• Mimicry
• Organism
• Parasitism
• Paleontology
• Person
• Plant
• Symbiosis
• Water, effects on life

Hypothetical life

• Astrobiology
• Extraterrestrial life, hypothetical life that exists outside Earth
• Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
• Carbon chauvinism
• Hypothetical types of biochemistry
• Silicon-based life
• Iron-sulfur world theory
• Ur-organism
• RNA world hypothesis
• Non-cellular life
• Panspermia
• Planetary habitability
• Shadow biosphere

Artificial and engineered

• Agent based model
• Artificial consciousness
• Artificial intelligence
• Artificial creation
• Artificial life
• Artificial person
• Android (robot)
• Bionics
• Biorobotics
• Cloning
• Cyborg
• Computer simulation of the cat brain
• Computational neuroscience
• Robot
• Self-replicating machine
• Synthetic biology
• Synthetic life

Origin of the universe and life

• Abiogenesis, the transition from nonliving elements to living systems
• Cosmogony, any theory concerning the origin of the universe
• Cosmology, the study of the universe and humanity's place in it
• Creation myth, a mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, Earth, life, and the universe
• Genesis creation narrative, creation as described in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis in the Bible
• Molecular evolution, evolution at the scale of molecules

Encounters with animate beings subject to skepticism

• Alien abduction
• Close encounter
• List of UFO sightings, encounters of the third and fourth kind
• Contactee
• List of reportedly haunted locations
• Summoning
• Channeling (mediumistic)

Also:

• Unidentified flying object
• Ufology
• Paranormal

Animate beings subject to skepticism

• Alien abduction entities
• Bigfoot
• Chupacabra
• Cryptozoology
• Cryptobotany
• Cryptid
• Energy being
• Ghost
• Lake monster
• List of alleged extraterrestrial beings
• List of cryptids
• Poltergeist
• Reptilians
• Sea monster
• Alleged UFO-related entities (category)
• Yeti

Folklore, legendary, and mythological

• Animalia Paradoxa
• Daemon (classical mythology)
• An Instinct for Dragons (book), a hypothesis on the origin of several legendary creatures
• Demigod
• Dragon
• Book of Imaginary Beings (book)
• Fairy
• Fearsome critters
• Giant (mythology)
• Legendary creature
• List of legendary creatures
• List of legendary creatures by type
• Lists of legendary creatures (category)
• Phoenix (mythology)
• Mythology
• Talking animal
• Trickster
• Lycanthropy
• Vampire
• Undead
• Unicorn
• Yokai

Also:

• Myth (disambiguation)
• Legend

Religious, spiritual, occult, and philosophical

• Angel
• Angel of Death
• Ancient serpent, or great dragon
• Antichrist
• Buddha
• Bodhisattva
• Christ
• Conceptions of God
• Creature
• Deity
• Demon
• Devil
• Egyptian soul
• Elemental spirit
• God
• Heaven
• Hell
• Christian demonology
• Christian demons in popular culture
• Soul
• List of theological angels
• List of theological demons
• Mind
• Pneuma
• Psyche (psychology)
• Self (spirituality)
• Spirit
• Thetan
• Underworld

Also:

• Afterlife
• Animism
• Esoteric healing
• Faith
• Good and evil
• Religion
• Life force
• Life energy
• Philosophy
• Prayer
• Psychology
• Spiritism
• Spirituality

Qualities, attributes, and terms

• Alien
• Being
• Consciousness
• Creature
• Entity
• Ethics
• Intelligence
• Morality
• Rationality
• Sapience
• Sentience
• Self-awareness

Issues

• Cruelty to animals
• Ethics of artificial consciousness
• Ethics of artificial intelligence

See also

• Alien (disambiguation)
• Artificial person
• Creature
• Creature of statute
• Life
• Organism

References

1. ^ "life form". World English Dictionary. Dictionary.com. 2009. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/life+form. 
2. ^ "life form". Online Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford University Press. 2005. http://dws-sketch.uk.oup.com/cgi-bin/onlineOde/print_entry.cgi?id=L002092044&match_point=2&lemma=&right_column_mode=synonyms&caption_style=long&search_type=simple.