The starchild skull came into the possession of Lloyd Pye, a writer and lecturer in the field of alternative knowledge, in February 1999. According to Pye, the skull was found around 1930 in a mine tunnel about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of the Mexican city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, buried alongside a normal human skeleton which was exposed and lying supine on the surface of the tunnel.
The skull is abnormal in several aspects. A dentist determined, based on examination of the upper right maxilla found with the skull, that it was a child's skull, 4.5 to 5 years in age.However, the volume of the interior of the starchild skull is 1600 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 at the bottom of the orbit instead of at the back. There are no frontal sinuses.The back of the skull is flattened, but not by artificial means. The skull consists of calcium hydroxyapatite, the normal material of mammalian bone.
Carbon 14 dating was performed twice, the first on the normal human skull at the University of California at Riverside in 1999, and on the Starchild skull in 2004 at Beta Analytic in Miami, the largest radiocarbon dating laboratory in the world. Both independent tests gave a result of 900 years ± 40 years since death.DNA testing in 1999 at BOLD, a forensic DNA lab in Vancouver, British Columbia found standard X and Y chromosomes in two samples taken from the skull. BOLD was unable to extract any DNA from the maxilla.Further DNA testing at Trace Genetics, which unlike BOLD specializes in extracting DNA from ancient samples, in 2003 recovered mitochondrial DNA and determined that the child had a human mother, though it was not the child of the skull found with it. Its mother did belong to a known Native American haplogroup, haplogroup C. However, useful lengths of nuclear DNA for further testing could not be recovered.Later testing in 2004 at the Royal Holloway Institute at the University of London revealed unexplained "fibers" in the bone of the skull and a reddish residue in the cancellous bone, neither of which are known or recorded to exist prior to the discovery.
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veganbond 1 day ago
It's clearly a defect. Poor little blighter didn't develop properly, it happens more than we like to think.
adriannicus 2 weeks ago
it's the skull of a retard, there was a kid in school with a big head we use to call him big head.
otisdriftwoodbaby 1 month ago
All this alien stuff would be a lot more believable if those who keep making up this stuff would give the aliens limitations an inferiority. You can say they're smarter, and I may be able to believe you (If we didn't have dark ages all the time, we'd be that advanced) but when you start saying that even their bones are more advanced; that's when I start to call shenanigans.
Can't someone make up alien stories where the aliens Aren't better in every single way?
ryelor123 1 month ago
oh, now I understand what the bible was complaining about.Lets see, you have men from outer space (angels) mating with woman on earth. Didn't that all end with a failed extinction event?
ryelor123 1 month ago
Wow ^___^ That is a crazy skull huh... That would be one ugly human as far as looks :/ Probably very smart and strong bones in other places... These people commenting are ignoring the thickness of the skull and how amazing that is. It basically meant this person must have had very strong bones.
jegej18 1 month ago
Line it up with mine....
jegej18 1 month ago
birth effects, dumbasses
mattthecow1 1 month ago
i believe it's called "physical retardation"
Noise509 2 months ago
I also love how in the line up of skulls all the other ones are perfect representations of a human skull. Line it up with skulls from twins joined at the head or other deformed skulls see which ones seem more alien.
BrootalMetalBanjo 2 months ago