This six-inch-long skeleton was discovered 10 years ago in Chile’s Atacama Desert, but it has only recently been examined by scientists — and it’s totally legit. Sure, it looks like something from a ...

In 2003, an ancient, six-inch-long corpse was found near a church in a ghost town of South America’s Atacama Desert. To many collectors and scientists at the time, the unusual anatomical makeup of the ...

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 ...