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Coyotl

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Wed May 1, 2013, 05:35 PM May 2013

Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery [View all]

Maybe this is old news to viewers of Ancient Aliens

Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/30/17989892-teensy-alien-looking-skeleton-from-chile-poses-a-medical-mystery

By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience

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 was discovered, some speculated that 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 that the individual was ....
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