Blurs

The Alien Who Dated a Chimp The first visitor from the stars did not arrive in a blazing warship or a cathedral-sized ark. He came alone. His species had crossed impossible distances not to conquer worlds but simply to study them.  Their civilization was billions of years old. They had catalogued galaxies, watched stars ignite and fade, and seen countless intelligent species rise and disappear.  Earth, however, fascinated them for one simple reason. It had so much potential. Sixty-four million years after the dinosaurs vanished, mammals flourished across the planet. Forests covered continents, oceans teemed with life, and among the trees of central Africa lived clever, social primates that seemed just one evolutionary nudge away from something extraordinary. They had spent centuries observing Earth and its 'chimpanzee' troops. Though separated by millions of years of evolution and an unimaginable gulf in biology, they formed a genuine bond with these inquisitive, yet mischevio...