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| == Assessment of the evidence == | == Assessment of the evidence == | ||
| A dentist who examined the upper right ] found with the skull determined that the skull was that of a child aged 4.5 to 5 years. The volume, however, of the interior of the Starchild skull is 1,600 cubic centimeters, which is 200 cm³ larger than the average adult's brain, and 400 cm³ larger than an adult of the same approximate size. The ]s are oval and shallow, with the ] canal situated closer to the bottom of the orbit than to the back. There are no ]es.<ref name=Fortean_127 /> The back of the skull is flattened.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} The skull consists of ], the normal material of ]ian |
A dentist who examined the upper right ] found with the skull determined that the skull was that of a child aged 4.5 to 5 years. The volume, however, of the interior of the Starchild skull is 1,600 cubic centimeters, which is 200 cm³ larger than the average adult's brain, and 400 cm³ larger than an adult of the same approximate size. The ]s are oval and shallow, with the ] canal situated closer to the bottom of the orbit than to the back. There are no ]es.<ref name=Fortean_127 /> The back of the skull is flattened.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} The skull consists of ], the normal material of ]ian | ||
| Neurologist ] of ] says that the cranium exhibits all of the characteristics of a child who has died as a result of ], and the cranial deformations were the result of accumulations of cerebrospinal fluid within the skull.<ref name=Feder /><ref name=NESS>{{cite web|last=Novella|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Novella|title=The Starchild Project|url=http://www.theness.com/index.php/the-starchild-project/|publisher=The New England Skeptical Society|access-date=March 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=roberts>{{cite book|title=The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us|last=Roberts|first=Alice|author-link=Alice Roberts|pages=87–88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYg0CwAAQBAJ|publisher=Quercus|date=2015|isbn=978-1623658083}}</ref><ref name=feder>{{cite book|last=Feder|first=Kenneth L.|author-link=Kenneth Feder|title=Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum|date=2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlRz2symkAsC|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313379192}}</ref><ref name="ProtheroCALLAHAN2017">{{cite book |authors= Prothero, Donald R.; Callahan, Timothy D.|title=UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says | publisher= Indiana University Press|pages=113– |isbn= 978-0253027061|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DI8uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|date=2017}}</ref> | |||
| ] in 1999 at BOLD (]), a ] DNA lab in ], found standard ] and ]s in two samples taken from the skull. Novella considers this "conclusive evidence" that the child was both male and human, and that both of his parents must have been human in order for each to have contributed one of the human sex chromosomes.<ref name=NESS /> | |||
| Further DNA testing in 2003 at Trace Genetics, which specializes in extracting DNA from ancient samples, isolated ] from both recovered skulls. The child belongs to ]. Since mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother, it makes it possible to trace the offspring's maternal lineage. The DNA test therefore confirmed that the child's mother was a Haplogroup C human female. However, the adult female found with the child belonged to ]. Both haplotypes are characteristic ] haplogroups, but the different haplogroup for each skull indicates that the adult female was not the child's mother.<ref name="Regal2009" /><ref name=Feder /> | |||
| Paranormal researcher ] states that often "anything not immediately explainable or obvious is interpreted as a baffling mystery, often with paranormal connotations. ... Science fiction speculation is fun but should not eclipse the real science and significance of these stories".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Radford |first1=Ben |author-link= Ben Radford|title='Alien' Mummy Identified by DNA |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=2018 |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=10–11 |publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry}}</ref> | |||
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| Hydrocephalus-baby.jpg|Young children with ] typically have an abnormally large head, as fluid pressure causes individual skull bones to bulge outward. | |||
| BR & Starchild skull.jpg|] examines a replica of the "Starchild Skull," claimed to be an alien/human hybrid, at the Roswell UFO festival | |||
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| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Archaeological find
The Starchild skull is part of a malformed human skull of a child who likely died as a result of congenital hydrocephalus. It received widespread publicity after paranormalist Lloyd Pye claimed it was of extraterrestrial origin.
Claims of Lloyd Pye
Pye claimed to have obtained the skull from Ray and Melanie Young of El Paso, Texas, in February 1999, stating that the skull was found around 1930 in a mine tunnel about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico, buried alongside a normal human skeleton that was exposed and lying supine on the surface of the tunnel.
Pye claimed the skull to be a hybrid offspring of an extraterrestrial and a human female.
Assessment of the evidence
A dentist who examined the upper right maxilla found with the skull determined that the skull was that of a child aged 4.5 to 5 years. The volume, however, of the interior of the Starchild skull is 1,600 cubic centimeters, which is 200 cm³ larger than the average adult's brain, and 400 cm³ larger than an adult of the same approximate size. The orbits are oval and shallow, with the optic nerve canal situated closer to the bottom of the orbit than to the back. There are no frontal sinuses. The back of the skull is flattened. The skull consists of calcium hydroxyapatite, the normal material of mammalian
See also
References
- ^ McCoy, Max (November 1999). "Star Child". Fortean Times (127): 42–45.
- "Alien skull' star attraction at Leeds extra-terrestrial conference". Yorkshire Evening Post. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- Brian Regal (15 October 2009). Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia: A Critical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-0-313-35508-0.
- Feder, Kenneth L. (2010). Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0313379185. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
External links
- "Skeptoid #144: The Case of the Strange Skulls". Skeptoid. March 10, 2009.
The Starchild Skull