Cachesaurous Presents....Today's Headline
Dinosaur Bones found on Mars.
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“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.
A photo from NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars set the Internet abuzz with claims that the robot had found a "thigh bone" on the Red Planet. But not so fast. That so-called bone? Just a in the photo description, NASA officials wrote that while "this Mars rock may look like a femur thigh bone," it is not the fossilized remains of a mysterious Martian. "Mission science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind or water."
There is a long tradition of seeing shapes in Mars rocks that don't reflect reality. The phenomenon in which the human brain perceives faces, animals or other shapes that aren't really there is known as pareidolia.
That Mars illusion history dates back to the late 1800s, when astronomers reported seeing canals on the Red Planet in telescope views. Then in 1976, a photo from NASA's Viking 1 orbiter revealed a formation that gained fame as the "Face on Mars." Later observations by NASA and European spacecraft showed no face, just a large rock feature, proving the face was just a trick of shadow and light.
Fact, Fiction, Government Conspiracy, you decide.
Perhaps the dinosaurs were once the dominant species on multiple planets throughout the solar system. One thing we know for sure is now only the Cachesaurous remains.
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