THEY are one of the most distinctive fossil shapes found on Earth, and now alien hunters claim to have found evidence of trilobites once living on Mars.
The ‘Martian trilobites’ with (insets above) real fossils from Earth
In a video released on YouTube, a paranormal channel has published a short film showing anomalies it claims to have discovered in NASA images of the Red Planet posted online.
Among the most striking are two oval shaped stone objects that have the appearance of triloytes – the over-sized woodlouse-like sea creature that lived on Earth 52million years ago.
Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, could not contain his excitement in a blog post.
Scott C Waring is convinced these are trilobite-like fossils on Mars
One of the Mars specimens in full zoom
A large trilobite fossil from the South Australian Museum
He said: “Just check out these two trilobites found on Mars this week.
“Whatsupinthesky37 of Youtube found them and its mind-blowing. Trilobites fossils here on Earth are often found around other trilobites.
“They live and die together. So seeing two of them is no surprise, but great evidence of a large water area that once covered the area here.
An artist impression of how a trilobite on earth would have looked
YouTube channel Martian Archaeology thinks it found a fossil sea bed on Mars with coral and a mollus
