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Showing Original Post only (View all)Tiny ‘Alien’ Skeleton Debunked by DNA Evidence [View all]

A tiny humanoid skeleton found in Chiles Atacama Desert has been hailed by UFO conspiracists for years as proof of extraterrestrial life. Now, actual science has proven that the skeleton, as with all currently known life, originated on Earth.
According to a LiveScience report, researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have used DNA testing on the fossilized skeleton. Despite the figure being only 6 inches long, the testing revealed that it comes from a human who was 6 to 8 years old when they died.
The researchers have not yet determined what deformities may have led to the obviously strange skeletal figure. The age of the skeleton has also not yet been determined, though the current estimate is that the person it belonged to died at least a few decades ago.
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Uh, how did a 6 inch human live to be 6-8yrs old???
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From the article: "there is a real discrepancy in how we account for the apparent age of the bones"
arcane1
May 2013
#3
OK, maybe it's not an alien. But it could be a human that was shrunk by an alien (nt)
Nye Bevan
May 2013
#10
she was probably about the same size on her 10th birthday too. six inches is about the size of
HiPointDem
May 2013
#21
Clearly ridiculous! 8 years? That "skeleton" looks absurd to me, but what do I know
anneboleyn
May 2013
#13
How hilarious. One impossible thing debunked and found to be ANOTHER impossible thing.
Poll_Blind
May 2013
#16
God Damn the stupid conspiracy theorists. They are like ultra cult religions.
graham4anything
May 2013
#26
Unless they are the ones who populated Earth with their seedlings, then our general
cbdo2007
May 2013
#30
It isn't about anticipating or having patience....it's just the way it is and has been
cbdo2007
May 2013
#43
Except of course that it is the stuff of passable sci-fi, & not illogical at all.
DirkGently
May 2013
#45