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"NASA's Curiosity rover spots a strange bone-like rock on Mars - as one expert calls it the most bizarre structure she's EVER seen on the Red Planet"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... -Mars.html
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Curious and interesting.

Thank you for the link Alan.
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Hi Alan. Wow, these are amazing images on Mars from the Curiosity Rover. My first perception was a fossilized fish bone or tree branch, and then after reading the text there were others who commented on the same possibility, but a more probable cause is from a surface sand and wind swept result over time. Thanks for finding and sharing this interesting link with us Alan.
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Undoubtedly a pleisiosaur fossil! :D
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Wow, that is strange!
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