Earlier this year, NASA published a study about Arsia Mons, a long-dead shield volcano on Mars. As it turned out, that volcano seemingly died right around the same time as the dinosaurs here on Earth.
As they shared in their news release, “The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 million years ago — around the time of Earth’s Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, when large numbers of our planet’s plant and animal species (including dinosaurs) went extinct.”
Pretty cool, right? Okay, let’s look at some weird alleged photos of dinosaur fossils on Mars!
The Martian T-Rex Skull
There are at least three alleged dinosaur skulls that people have spotted on Mars rover photos over the years, but let’s just peruse one of them.
See that? NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped an image of this rock on June 7, 2013. Paranormal websites were quick to point out that it looked strangely like a T-Rex skull, teeth included! Here, let me circle that for you:
Fossils On Mars?
In 2013, the Curiosity rover took another set of images at the Gale Crater, containing what some people claimed looked like dinosaur vertebrae. Zoomed in, you can see how the formation really does look a bit like a vertebral column, or bones of some kind.
But Rob, I hear you say, That’s just a rock. Yeah.
Andrew Basiago’s Close Encounters of the Martian Dinosaur Kind
Andrew Basiago and his alleged forays through time and space make for fun stories. He’s spoken time and again about his work with Project Pegasus, and apparently he did quite a bit more than visit Gettysburg in 1863. No, that was actually just a “reward” for a job well done after several other missions.
Or so the story goes. I don’t know.
Anyway, he claims to have journeyed much farther than that – all the way back to 1 million BC, where he allegedly watched two dinosaurs munching grass.
See that image? That’s an artist’s interpretation, courtesy the European Southern Observatory, of what Mars might have looked like four billion years ago. According to ESO, “The young planet Mars would have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 140 metres deep, but it is more likely that the liquid would have pooled to form an ocean occupying almost half of Mars’s northern hemisphere.” Incredible!
Going back to Basiago, because we have to wrap this up, he claims not only that he acted as a human ambassador from Earth to the advanced peoples of Mars, but also that he witnessed living dinosaurs there. They would, he said, hunt and eat any of the Martian residents who wandered too far beyond their civilization. That’s just the way of the dinosaurs.
Is any of that real? Well, I’ve got two pictures of rocks and the testimony of an alleged chrononaut. It is what it is.
