It resembles the stereotypical image of extraterrestrials and had UFO enthusiasts around the world going into conspiracy-theory overdrive.
But the 6-inch skeleton found in theAtacama Desert in Chile in 2003 by a treasure hunter - dubbed the 'AtacamaHumanoid' or 'Ata' for short - has been declared human. It puts paid to claims that the figure was a monkey, or as some suggested an alien that crash-landed on Earth.
In a documentary called 'Sirius', which premiered on Monday in Hollywood, Stanford scientists conclude that the odd looking figure is in fact human and lived for up to eight years before death.
Stanford scientists conclude that the odd looking figure is not a monkey, but human
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"I can say with absolute certainty that it is not a monkey. It is human -- closer to human than chimpanzees. It lived to the age of sixto eight. Obviously, itwas breathing, it waseating, it was metabolizing. It calls into question how big the thing might have been when it was born,"said Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine in California.
According to a Chilean local newspaper, a treasure hunter OscarMunoz found the remains on October 19, 2003 when he was looking for objects of historical value in La Noria, an abandoned town in the Atacama Desert.
UFO experts hoped that the discovery would reveal the firstconfirmed visitation to Earth by extraterrestrial life.
However, the Stanford team concluded that it wasan 'interesting mutation' of a male human that had survived post-birth for between six and eight years.
The team of scientists also refuted that the specimen was a hoax, citing clear signs of the existenceof organs and bone marrow material.
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I suspect one day it will be clear that 'aliens' are only humans who got carried away with the technology of cloning and bending time,,,,,,