A couple of decades ago a tiny human-like skeleton, just 15cm long, was discovered in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Unsurprisingly, the find was jumped upon by alien conspiracists. A scientific paper has recently been published on the results of DNA studies showing the skeleton to be fully-human (no surprises there), but with numerous genetic mutations - some of which were previously unknown. I chose the following article because it has quite a lot of information in it: Was a Tiny Mummy in the Atacama an Alien? No, but the Real Story Is Almost as Strange There are photos of the skeleton on the link as well. It is quite extraordinary.
