Turtles dont thrive on Mars.

The Smerelajiah is no ordinary nigh omni god. He is one god that does random crap whenever he wants to. One day he decided to start life back on Mars, which about 1000 years prior to this event he wiped out the remaining non intellegent life. He first started with making some rabbits, they didnt live, then whales, not successful. Then he tried genetically modified turtles, they lasted about 3 hours then died.