Atacama "Alien" Update: DNA Details Of Six-Inch Skeleton

By Gemma Tarlach
Mar 22, 2018 5:00 PMAug 29, 2023 2:18 PM
A mummified skeleton only six inches long, found in Chile's Atacama Desert, stirred up controversy. Bhattacharya S et al. 2018
A mummified skeleton only six inches long, found in Chile's Atacama Desert, stirred up controversy. Bhattacharya S et al. 2018

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Smaller than a Barbie doll, with an elongated skull and other anomalies, the mummified skeleton known as “Ata” was found in an abandoned mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2003. And since then, there has been no shortage of theories about the individual, many of them suggesting an otherworldly origin. A study out today answers several of the questions swirling around the remains.

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