Evolution has evolved different forms of life after various extinction events on Earth. Life could have evolved very differently with the smallest of alternative events. Suppose the first chordate fish all died out, we would not be here or with only 1,000 hominids surviving suppose a flood wiped them all out.

Most sci-fi writers approach different forms of life evolving from different environments which led to different abilities and senses.
This makes some profound differences in the possibilities of life around various life-friendly stars on planets or moons.