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JaneyVee

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Wed May 1, 2013, 07:58 PM May 2013

Tiny ‘Alien’ Skeleton Debunked by DNA Evidence [View all]



A tiny humanoid skeleton found in Chile’s 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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"Uh, how did a 6 inch human live to be 6-8yrs old???" EXACTLY. WinkyDink May 2013 #1
I have the same question. 6-8 years??? Duer 157099 May 2013 #2
From the article: "there is a real discrepancy in how we account for the apparent age of the bones" arcane1 May 2013 #3
I wonder if this might have been a parasitic twin? Duer 157099 May 2013 #4
Not exactly a debunking, given they have no idea what's going on. DirkGently May 2013 #5
That's a weather balloon. FSogol May 2013 #6
^^^ Winner. Iggo May 2013 #44
omg are people *so ready* to believe anything? Phillip McCleod May 2013 #7
never heard of a six inch dwarf. i don't believe it. HiPointDem May 2013 #20
must be an *alien* then? i don't believe it. Phillip McCleod May 2013 #25
could be a fetal skeleton. that would be my guess. HiPointDem May 2013 #57
The modern record for extremely short adults is 1 foot 9 inches Yo_Mama May 2013 #35
It's not out of the realm of what is known about human genetics? EOTE May 2013 #41
yes it would. HiPointDem May 2013 #47
Just guessing but Shankapotomus May 2013 #8
The headhunters take the skull out before shrinking the head. djean111 May 2013 #29
They know what 'alien DNA' is like, and it's not like human DNA. Obviously. Matariki May 2013 #9
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
No - it was shrunk by Dr. Cyclops! csziggy May 2013 #59
solved it. d_r May 2013 #11
MTE. That thing can't be real. It must be some kind of joke. anneboleyn May 2013 #14
Not necessarily. This young lady was 2 feet tall on her 18th birthday: Poll_Blind May 2013 #17
she was probably about the same size on her 10th birthday too. six inches is about the size of HiPointDem May 2013 #21
Thank you- from the moment I posted that image, I was wondering what... Poll_Blind May 2013 #39
Exactly. Six inches is the size of a fetus. anneboleyn May 2013 #54
Uh, how did a 6 inch human live to be 6-8yrs old??? Kalidurga May 2013 #12
Clearly ridiculous! 8 years? That "skeleton" looks absurd to me, but what do I know anneboleyn May 2013 #13
I would guess dessicated premature infant if it isn't an outright hoax pediatricmedic May 2013 #15
That would be my guess. alphafemale May 2013 #50
How hilarious. One impossible thing debunked and found to be ANOTHER impossible thing. Poll_Blind May 2013 #16
Well... maybe it IS a leprechaun... Marrah_G May 2013 #23
or as my aunt and uncle would call them... Javaman May 2013 #36
Dental records reveal his name is Ray Palmer Bucky May 2013 #18
I get it. :D Marr May 2013 #22
Ha! To both of you!!! randome May 2013 #31
Oh, noes! An entire genre of CT put to death! What shall we do? freshwest May 2013 #19
Art Bell's guests swear "thunderbirds" are everywhere in the American west anneboleyn May 2013 #52
Yeah, the thunderbird thing. They swear it. One of his guests says: freshwest May 2013 #55
Okay.... Marrah_G May 2013 #24
God Damn the stupid conspiracy theorists. They are like ultra cult religions. graham4anything May 2013 #26
Anyone old enough to remember Bob and Ray? FSogol May 2013 #27
That it bears even a passing rememblance to a human form is evidence enough IDemo May 2013 #28
Unless they are the ones who populated Earth with their seedlings, then our general cbdo2007 May 2013 #30
The earliest life forms originated about 3.8 billion years ago IDemo May 2013 #33
Oh yeah? How do you explain Prometheus, then? Huh? randome May 2013 #34
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
We have a vast array of alien life forms beyond the imagination of sci-fi writers IDemo May 2013 #49
Astronomical odds are kind of given if you're talking space travel DirkGently May 2013 #56
it's DB Cooper datasuspect May 2013 #32
The Little People Berlum May 2013 #37
Science > Woo. Always...nt SidDithers May 2013 #38
Its a freaking alien ffs :) darkangel218 May 2013 #40
Paternity tests prove that the dad is Rick Moranis. lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #42
that's clearly a baby chupacabra n/t Enrique May 2013 #46
with mange! Ba-da-bum! anneboleyn May 2013 #53
debunked as being extraterrestrial, probably. But WTH??? librechik May 2013 #48
As a person who once lived in the Chilean Atacama Desert, I was always Cleita May 2013 #51
Fascinating! frogmarch May 2013 #58
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