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| The '''Starchild skull''' is an abnormal human ] allegedly found in ] that is claimed to be the product of extraterrestrial-human breeding or genetic manipulation. Tests conducted utilizing ] recovered from the skull |
The '''Starchild skull''' is an abnormal human ] allegedly found in ] that is claimed to be the product of extraterrestrial-human breeding or genetic manipulation. Tests conducted utilizing ] recovered from the skull are inconclusive or incomplete. | ||
| ==Discovery== | ==Discovery== | ||
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| Pye claims that the skull is the hybrid offspring of an extraterrestrial and a human female.<ref name=Feder>{{cite web | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xmDnhPNLwYwC&pg=PA246 | title=Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum | accessdate=March 17, 2011 | author=Feder, Kenneth L. | date=2010 | publisher=ABC-CLIO}}</ref> According to Pye, 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. The skull consists of ], the normal material of ]ian bone. | Pye claims that the skull is the hybrid offspring of an extraterrestrial and a human female.<ref name=Feder>{{cite web | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xmDnhPNLwYwC&pg=PA246 | title=Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum | accessdate=March 17, 2011 | author=Feder, Kenneth L. | date=2010 | publisher=ABC-CLIO}}</ref> According to Pye, 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. The skull consists of ], the normal material of ]ian bone. | ||
| ] typically have an abnormally large head, as fluid pressure causes individual skull bones to bulge outward.]] | |||
| Neurologist ] of ] says 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=NESS>{{cite web|last=Novella|first=Steven|title=The Starchild Project|url=http://www.theness.com/index.php/the-starchild-project/|publisher=The New England Skeptical Society|accessdate=March 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=Feder /> | |||
| ===DNA testing=== | |||
| ] in 1999 at BOLD (]), a ] DNA lab in ] found standard ] and ]s in two samples taken from the skull, "conclusive evidence that the child was not only human (and male), but both of his parents must have been human as well, for each must have contributed one of the human sex chromosomes."<ref name=NESS></ref> | |||
| 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=Feder /> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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The Starchild skull is an abnormal human skull allegedly found in Mexico that is claimed to be the product of extraterrestrial-human breeding or genetic manipulation. Tests conducted utilizing mtDNA recovered from the skull are inconclusive or incomplete.
Discovery
Paranormal researcher Lloyd Pye, the owner of the skull, says he obtained the skull from Ray and Melanie Young of El Paso, Texas, in February 1999. According to Pye, 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.
Claims
Pye claims that the skull is the hybrid offspring of an extraterrestrial and a human female. According to Pye, 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 bone.
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.
- Feder, Kenneth L. (2010). "Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum". ABC-CLIO. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
