Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 19:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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...