Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery [1]
NBC News - By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience [2] , 4/30/13
A 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) skeleton was found in Chile's Atacama Desert. The skeleton showed several anomalies, including its alienlike skull, teensy body and the fact that it had just 10 ribs rather than the 12 that healthy humans normally have. Sirius via YouTube
A teensy skeleton with a squashed alienlike head may have earthly origins — but the remains, found in Chile's Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for quite a medical mystery.
Apparently when the mummified specimen [3] was discovered, some speculated that it was an alien that had somehow landed on Earth [4], though the researchers involved never suggested this otherworldly origin.
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