The alien of the Atacama

Another conspiracy theory has been washed down the plug hole it would seem. The idea that a small skeleton with a squashed head, likened to a Sci Fi alien (in the ET mode) found in the Atacama desert a decade ago, was in some way unearthly, has been scotched it seems. DNA tests suggest it was a child of between 6 and 8 years of age and yet the remains were only 6 inches in length – see www.livescience.com/29176-alien-looking-skeleton-poses-medical-mystery.html