A six-inch skeleton with an elongated head found in Chile's Atacama Desert had thousands of people believing that an extraterrestrial had been discovered according to UPI.
Known officially as the "Atacama humanoid," new data has proved theorists wrong, after human DNA was found on the skeleton's remains. The individual was a male, who lived between 6 to 8 years.
"While the jury is out regarding the mutations that cause the deformity, and there is a real discrepancy in how we account for the apparent age of the bones every nucleotide I've been able to look at is human," researcher Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, told Live Science. "(Mitochondrial DNA data indicates) the mother being an indigenous woman from the Chilean area of South America."
The remains showed a number of skill deformities, and only ten ribs, compared to the normal 12 according to researchers.
No explanation for the mutations that caused the deformities had been released as of press time.
The DNA results indicated that the boy died at least "a few decades" ago.
The study was featured in a film called "Sirius," a UFO documentary that premiered on April 22. The project was funded by Steven Greer, the founder of the Center of the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
"It's an interesting medical mystery of an unfortunate human with a series of birth defects that currently the genetics of which are not obvious," Nolan said according to Live Science.
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