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In the movie Prometheus, the worm which came into contact with the 'black substance' quickly mutated into a snake-like creature.
What are the odds that other worms of the same species that came into contact with the same 'black substance' would mutate into different creatures? Like for example a lizard-like amphibious creature?
No. Here is an explanation which was gleaned from Ridley Scott's comments. According to the explanation given, the black goo is a catalyst for evolution. Contacting the substance appears to cause living things to radically and quickly evolve into hostile life forms. Given that it causes living things to evolve, I think we can draw the conclusion that they would evolve into creatures from their same biological family: Worms wouldn't evolve into cats.
