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Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery
- adventured 13y agoIs it safe to assume NBC is being punked by this? I've seen this story roaming about the Interwebs and have assumed that it was a hoax.
- LeeHunter 13y agoNothing so far on Snopes.
- EvanKelly 13y agoI'm having a hard time positively validating much of the info in the article, but Garry Nolan is indeed a Stanford professor whose name is fairly heavily attached to this Atacama skeleton. I can't find anything online with Dr. Nolan distancing himself from the skeleton or saying he's not involved. His lab page doesn't have anything about it.
- spullara 13y agoMy guess is that it is a tiny skeleton carved from human bones.
- breadbox 13y agoThe biologist P. Z. Meyers argues that the skeleton is clearly that of a fetus. Quote: "It’s 6 inches long, which would make it a fetus around 20 weeks postconception; assuming a fair amount of shrinkage during dessication, I could guess as late as 6-7 months. The pattern of bone ossification -- notice, no sternum -- fits that as well, but it doesn’t fit a 6 year old at all." (from http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/25/id-watch-it/comment-page-1/#comment-609287 http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/25/id-watch-i...) I don't think it's a hoax -- just a real discovery to which some ridiculous claims have become unfortunately attached.
- iterationx 13y agoHere's a link to the trailer Sirius which stars this "alien", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZuYO-bNfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZuYO-bNfY Also he's allegedly got some kind of free energy system in the movie.