Mr Waring said: “The object I found seems to resemble an elephant sitting down, but has a short trunk.
“This statue is about half a metre or the size of a medium dog.
“Of course, there is the possibility its a fossil, that it’s an animal that died in that location and position and it was buried, minerals replaced it, and then sands blew away revealing it again.”
Despite the bizarre claims, there is no evidence to show life on Mars has ever existed.
Scientists believe the Red Planet once resembled a young Earth with a humid and dense atmosphere and vast oceans.
