CONSPIRACY theorists around the globe have new material for their suspicions, after the publication of a study in the journal Genome Research which detailed tests on a six-inch mummified skeleton from Chile.
The unusual artefact is about the size of a human foetus but has a cone-shaped head and fewer ribs than expected - leading to fanciful explanations as to its origin, including suggestions it could be some sort of space alien.
Not so, according to the researchers from Stanford University, who say DNA testing indicates significant genetic mutations which would explain the unusual features.
But like anyone who's seen E.T., we're going to stick with the nutters and put our money on the skeleton (pictured) being clearly of otherworldly origin.
There was somewhat of a crisis in a shopping centre carpark in San Francisco yesterday when an Uber driver drove down a staircase outside a Safeway store.
Nobody was injured in the crash, with the driver saying he was following the Uber navigation system at the time and it directed him down the stairs.
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