A former NASA scientist recently made the explosive claim that life was found on Mars in the 1970s, something the government space agency has vehemently denied. But an entomologist at Ohio University has gone one step further, claiming he has spotted “insect- and reptile-like creatures” on a photo of the Red Planet, both alive and dead.

Ohio University emeritus professor William Romoser has spent the past several years looking at a number of photos publicly available from various Mars rovers, including the Curiosity rover, and found a number of “insect-like forms, structured similarly to bees, as well as reptile-like forms,” according to a release from the university.

“There has been and still is life on Mars,” Romoser, who specializes in arbovirology and general/medical entomology, said in the release. “There is apparent diversity among the Martian insect-like fauna which display many features similar to Terran insects that are interpreted as advanced groups — for example, the presence of wings, wing flexion, agile gliding/flight, and variously structured leg elements.”……more here