Rodent was found on Mars?

[Ter]

I posted this in the General forum, but it got deleted, saying it was "CT" type stuff. However, technically this is news, mainly because the pic is a 100% real NASA photo on Mars. Whether it is a rodent or rock is the question. To me, the tail clearly proves it's no rock.

Anyway, remember around December when a scientist at NASA said they had a major discovery on Mars and an announcement planned, only to backtrack? Well, apparently, this was it.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-30/is-there-rodent-life-on-mars

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. My gosh. Our first look at an actual Martian.

Not exactly what I pictured all these years.

[trotsky]

2. A link, two questions, and another link.

The link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

The questions: How would it breathe? and What would it eat?

The other link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

[RevStPatrick]

3. Rodent?

I thought it was a lizard?

[arcane1]

4. This is "news" as much as every Jesus-on-toast is news. n/t

[johnp3907]

5. Did Bigfoot kill that rat?

http://www.ourbigfoot.com/bigfoot_mars.html

[AuroraB]

6. Really?

[Ter]

7. I'm furious this was locked in GD

There were 24 replied in like an hour. This is major news, come on people.

[trotsky]

8. Puh-lease.

Read the links and answer the questions I posted above.

[Orrex]

9. I'm actually more interested in that big red circle

You can't tell me that's a natural formation.

[BlueJazz]

10. There's also some letters in the red circle but are hard to resolve...

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