Jzero
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This is gaf, people don't click the links.
Alien-Looking Skeleton Poses Medical Mystery
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This is gaf, people don't click the links.
I play Pikmin.
Cow Mengde
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I thought I was looking at a toy or what were those things call? Some Mexican (South American?) skeleton thing. Sorry, I don't remember the name.
Preliminiary finds indicate its DNA is human. So... how could it be fake?
Probably some serious developmental disorders.
Slayer-33
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What if Aliens are human?
What if all intelligent life as we are have "human dna"
Gulp.
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It's being tested by honest to goodness scientists, not crackpots, so yeah, it's real. They haven't figured out why it looks that way yet.
DNA says it is.
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Also, why are people automatically jumping to alien?
It could be a fairy, damn it!
It could be a fairy, damn it!
what if alien DNA is strand for strand indistinguishable from human DNA!?
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Shit would have been a crazy-ass six or seven or eight year old, sho'.
CassidyIzABeast
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megaton revealed....we are the aliens
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RustyNails
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Wait, wasn't Zapages juniored for posting this news last year?
Zapages is redeemed and should get full posting privileges back.
Zapages is redeemed and should get full posting privileges back.
I'm just overreacting for fun because fuck, that's one ugly sob.
yeah dude wants to market his documentary
Fiction said:
looking at the pictures was enough
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That's not the thing they are looking at?
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yeah dude wants to market his documentary
looking at the pictures was enough
Actual scientists are actually taking it seriously, and say it's a human child. Which is pretty fascinating, to be honest.
Edit: Sorry for double posting
Completly different thing... those have nothing to do with this news.
CornBurrito
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Check the second link in my edit. The fake looks just like it.
I dont think the discovery channel would post fake news as actual without doing some fact checking.
Not the same thing at all.
"So, supposedly the little critter is a human child, at least 6 years old, and only six inches long. This sounds almost as implausible as an ET."
Yeah, that's complete bullshit.
It being a deformed human child is much, much more likely than it being ET (which it isn't).
Some random blog's opinion is not worth rat's ass.
GoldenEye 007
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They did air Orange County Choppers, though, or whatever that chop shop bike show was....
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Still not seeing where it's confirmed a fake. The second link is just some guy trying to debunk the one we actually are talking about, and the first one is about something completely different.
MarshMellow96
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I think one of his buddies was spotted above Glasgow earlier...
CornBurrito
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Eh you're right. I'll retract my statement. Though why hasn't the guy submitted his results to any notable journal?
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The guy who found the thing thinks it's an alien, yeah. He turned it over to actual legit scientists, who were not shocked to discover, nope, not an alien, but a bit shocked to discover it's actually an incredibly tiny human child. Which is totally interesting.
Edit: I don't know if the guy that did the documentary actually found the thing or not, I haven't watched the documentary, since it's...ya know, bull.
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I also hate that they titled the article with the word Alien to get more people to click, but it also makes other sorts dismiss the entire thing out right WITHOUT clicking. They should have gone with 'Tiny human skeleton' instead.
MrToughPants
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Probably a deformed 6 year old E.T. child that shares ancestry with humans, whom the E.T.s transplanted here. Probably...
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People need to stop just looking at the pictures and rolling their eyes and read the damned article.
Mikey Jr.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just remember this same thing from a few years ago and how some kids found the exact same kind of alien. Later it was discovered it was rubber or something.
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Read the article. Seriously. It's not a toy, nor is it made of rubber, NOR IS IT AN ALIEN.
It's being researched by legit scientists, who say DNA testing has concluded that it's in fact, human, and was 6-8 years old when it died. And is freaking tiny.
Homo florensiensis would be its name. Found on small islands in Indonesia. But, as you said, they were much bigger than that: usually around 3-4 feet. They also had pretty proportional bone structure and didn't display the abnormal features this little fella did.
Himynameischris
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Hmm I wonder if maybe it lived inside the mother for 6 years until she pooped it out? So it was never actually "alive" but just kinda stopped growing in the womb?? Either way freaky...
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Yeah, I find them to be fascinating as well. I love interesting aberrations in humans. Homo forensiensis can be explained though, quite easy, due to living on a tiny island. This one is going to come down to some serious genetic defects, or something weird in the mummification process that shrunk it. Is that possible? To shrink a whole person like that?
Edit: Ooh, that's a possibility too, a pregnancy that never was. A stone baby maybe? But those tend to just look like tumors with baby features.
Devolution
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No. The mother would get an infection and die before that happened.
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Himynameischris
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Well what it it wasn't dead in the womb....but just never grew??
Edit: Ok seems there is a name for it, could be it.
Yeah, Homo floresiensis had a similar case to the pygmy elephant - did not have the resources to sustain a large body, so over time the smaller individuals who did not need as much food survived. It's the pinnacle of human evolution in terms of natural selection. I, too, find it interesting (bio major).
Mummification generally causes the individual to shrink, and the head looks like a result of some autosomal mutation. So it could be that plus dwarfism plus the mummification that mutated it to such a level.
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