The Atacama skeleton, or Ata, named after the Chilean desert where the remains were found, has 10 pairs of ribs. The average person has 12. Ata’s skull narrows to a ridged peak. Her bones are as ...

An international team of researchers has questioned the findings of a study that argued that a bizarre skeleton found in the Atacama Desert was a human girl with severe genetic mutations. In 2003, the ...

Chile's mysterious, oblong-headed 'Atacama skeleton' may have once been a small class of terrestrial humanoid living in the high caves of the South American Andes, at least according to the man who ...

Scientists investigate the genome of a tiny skeleton named "Ata" found in the Chilean desert and thought by some to have an extraterrestrial origin. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

It looks like a tiny little alien, with its elongated head and oval eyeholes. The mummified skeleton found in Chile’s Atacama desert has been the source of many an alien-conspiracy theory, despite ...

People had many theories about a small skeleton that was found behind an abandoned church in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The six-inch figure was recovered in a leather pouch and had a head shaped ...

When a Stanford University professor said the bizarre Atacama skeleton likely belonged to a human child between the ages of six and eight, it seemed crazy. How could this tiny, long-headed creature ...

In 2003, amid the dry, desolate stones and salt lakes of Chile’s Atacama Desert, a wanderer discovered a tiny, humanoid skeleton. This six-inch-long “Atacama alien,” with its strangely elongated skull ...

Like many ancient artifacts, the tiny, bizarrely shaped Atacama skeleton was sold to a private collector soon after its 2003 discovery in Chile’s Atacama desert. Six inches long with an elongated head ...

The work "Camata" by Pierre Huyghe in the Punta della Dogana Museum. "Camata" shows a human skeleton around which robotic arms perform a kind of bizarre burial ritual. For the show, the French ...