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theTexans t1_iszptiz wrote

Reply to comment by Pluto_and_Charon in Curiosity Mars Rover Reaches Long-Awaited Salty Region by Pluto_and_Charon

The giant dead half-eaten fish in the first image, not the panoramic at the top of the article.

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-DementedAvenger- t1_iszqhwy wrote

It’s not a half eaten fish. It’s a rock formation.

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theTexans t1_iszrcdl wrote

Well yeah, it was half-eaten at least 3.5 Billion years ago

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Delicious-Gap1744 t1_it05ncx wrote

I'm pretty sure a fish fossil that close to the surface wouldn't survive billions of years of erosion from the atmosphere.

Realistically using Earth as an example there wasn't even close to enough time where Mars was habitable for complex multicellular life to evolve, only microbes.

Just for reference the first single celled life evolved on Earth 3.7 billion years ago, but the first complex multicellular life first evolved 600 million years ago.

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