"Researchers made a mysterious discovery in Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2003. This tiny skeleton looked human, but had many features that left scientists scratching their heads. When the images hit the internet, many people assumed the only explanation could be aliens. Thankfully, more reasonable heads prevailed and the remains were subjected to a battery of forensic testing in order to identify how this anomalous skeleton, nicknamed Ata, came to be.
So what made this specimen so peculiar? For starters, the skeleton was only 15 centimeters (6 inches) long. Many initially speculated that the remains were from a premature birth or miscarried fetus, though others disregarded the whole thing as a hoax.
Ata’s size isn’t the only thing that perplexed researchers; a host of physical deformities did not make it entirely clear if the skeleton is human or a non-human primate. Humans have 12 ribs, but this individual only had 10. The skull indicated the organism could have had turricephaly, which gives the head a cone-shaped appearance (which really didn’t help dissuade people from thinking Ata was an alien). Additional deformity of the face and jaw made the head look squished, giving it an appearance that was even further away from a typical human. "
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Perhaps it's an infant born with serious birth defects. There is an off chance it's a new species of prehuman like Homo floresiensis. Maybe it's a hoax. There's a long way to go before concluding aliens.
No, which is why I find it to be so weird.
DNA test says 91% human (explanation for why not 100% is degradation of the sample vs. alien or primate etc)
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Look at the femurs and how short and thick they are in relation to the rest of the body. I would love to believe it is an alien, but some kind of ape is my best guess
DNA test says 91% human (explanation for why not 100% is degradation of the sample vs. alien or primate etc)
Could possibly be something close, such as an earlier hominid? Maybe a bonobo, which are very close to humans genetically. We have to remember that we are something like 90 (I didn't look this number up fwiw) percent similar to fruit flies genetically. Or maybe it's just a deformed human. I don't know, but it sure is compelling.
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Look at the femurs and how short and thick they are in relation to the rest of the body. I would love to believe it is an alien, but some kind of ape is my best guess
DNA test says 91% human (explanation for why not 100% is degradation of the sample vs. alien or primate etc)
Humans share over 90% DNA with Primates
To study the specimen, Nolan sought clues in Ata's genome. He initially presumed the specimen was tens or hundreds of thousands of years old—the Atacama Desert may be the driest spot on the planet, so Ata could have been preserved for eons. He consulted experts who had extracted DNA from bones of the Denisovans, an Asian relative of European Stone Age Neandertals. It turned out that their protocols weren't necessary. "The DNA was modern, abundant, and high quality," he says, indicating that the specimen is probably a few decades old.
To the chagrin of UFO hunters, Ata is decidedly of this world. After mapping more than 500 million reads to a reference human genome, equating to 17.7-fold coverage of the genome, Nolan concluded that Ata "is human, there's no doubt about it." Moreover, the specimen's B2 haplotype—a category of mitochondrial DNA—reveals that its mother was from the west coast of South America: Chile, that is.
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Human skull bones don't fully fuse until one year after birth. So your esteemed buddy is full of shit
Plastic?
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At least one expert has a more prosaic take—but agrees that the specimen is human. "This looks to me like a badly desiccated and mummified human fetus or premature stillbirth," says William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York. He notes that "barely ossified and immature elements" of the hands and feet, and the wide open metopic suture, where the two frontal bones of the skull come together down the middle of the forehead. "Genetic anomalies are not evident, probably because there aren't any," he says. Nolan responds that the rib number and epiphyseal plate densities remain a riddle; while he is open to the fetus hypothesis, he thinks that the jury is still out.
Human skull bones don't fully fuse until one year after birth. So your esteemed buddy is full of shit
Buddy? I'n quoting an article lol
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Plastic?
You can DNA test plastic? Never knew that
You can "find" fake shit in a desert and make stuff up about it too!
You can "find" fake shit in a desert and make stuff up about it too!
You sound like a guy who knows what he's talking about.
Just to help you with BS 101.
Look at the piece of plastic. It resembles a miniturized skeleton with all those anomalies ... but no flesh or skin....
Now look at the x-ray. There are lots of inconsistencies, but most obvious to you and everyone except Giants732 is that it is draped in skin. Check out the belly. Fake or not?
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Just to help you with BS 101.
Look at the piece of plastic. It resembles a miniturized skeleton with all those anomalies ... but no flesh or skin....
Now look at the x-ray. There are lots of inconsistencies, but most obvious to you and everyone except Giants732 is that it is draped in skin. Check out the belly. Fake or not?
I mean, I'm just curious as to how you think plastic or resin contains DNA. Let alone the expert testimony, but yeah, you sure got me on this lolol
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Just to help you with BS 101.
Look at the piece of plastic. It resembles a miniturized skeleton with all those anomalies ... but no flesh or skin....
Now look at the x-ray. There are lots of inconsistencies, but most obvious to you and everyone except Giants732 is that it is draped in skin. Check out the belly. Fake or not?
I mean, I'm just curious as to how you think plastic or resin contains DNA. Let alone the expert testimony, but yeah, you sure got me on this lolol
It doesn't. Thats the point. Good luck getting out of middle school....