The six-inch-long alien like tiny skeleton found in Atacama Desert, in Chile, some days ago, it was thought to be a child aged between 6 and 8 years old and not a foetus. Now according to Paolo Viscardo, a natural history curator at the Horiman Museum in London, there’s no possibility this skeleton could have come from a 6 to 8 years old child.
Images © Atacama Humanoid 2013 Sirius Disclosure
Viscardo wrote at his blog, Zygoma:
“This seems quite remarkable to me, since I’ve dealt with skeletal foetus specimens rather similar to this in museum collections.
The main differences I can discern by looking at the high quality photos, X-rays and CT scan…are that the Atacama specimen is from a slightly earlier stage foetus…it has mummified soft tissue that has shrunk tight…pulling the ribcage into a more narrow configuration; and the head has been distorted, probably as a result of an illegal back-street abortion where a hook has been used to extract the foetus…causing damage to the back of the skull and stretching the pliable head.”
The following image is from a skeleton of foetus with estimated age of 18-20 weeks:
via io9
What baloney! Why does the fetus have 10 ribs? Why does it have the wrong dna? why the wrong skullplates?