Teeny Tiny "human" skeleton from the Atacama Desert

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Teeny Tiny "human" skeleton from the Atacama Desert

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Alien-Looking Skeleton Poses Medical Mystery
Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience wrote:A teensy skeleton with a squashed alienlike head may have earthly origins, but the remains, found in the Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for quite a medical mystery.

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Apparently when the mummified specimen was discovered, some had suggested the possibility it was an alien that had somehow landed on Earth, though the researchers involved never suggested this otherworldly origin.

Now, DNA and other tests suggest the individual was a human and was 6 to 8 years of age when he or she died. Even so, the remains were just 6 inches (15 centimeters) long.
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