In 2003, a mummified skeleton was found in the Chilean desert and was suggested in a documentary as potential evidence of alien life. In 2018 scientists have extracted DNA from the mummy's bones and pieced together the real and tragic story of the individual, known as Ata.
Rather than a visitor from another world, Ata was a girl who appears to have been stillborn or to have died immediately after birth, with devastating mutations that shaped her extraordinary body. The skeleton was remarkable in many ways.
While only 15cm tall, the bones had some features of a child aged six to eight. Instead of the usual 12 pairs of ribs found on humans, Ata had only 10 pairs. The head was an elongated cone shape.