Posted by jburk to Life on Mars at March 7, 2004 11:31 AM

Now that there's conclusive evidence that at least part of Mars was once a water-soaked place where living things could have wriggled, swam or slithered, it takes only a few more leaps of speculation to wonder how they might have died. Did their eyes bug out like Arnold Schwarzenegger's in "Total Recall"? Not likely - hypothetical Martian creatures probably wouldn't have had enough time to evolve eyes before the planet became the cold and arid place it is today.