'Alien baby' stumps experts

huh funky looking thing. A good question is why would a baby anything of any species be left alone like that?

creepy stuff. O.O

"They" state the samples are too decayed to yield identifiable DNA results. How convenient for the imagination.

Let's say this is "real." I'm going to play devils advocate by saying that if this is a true alien that evolved in a different climate and has the ability to accomplish interstellar travel... I'm not sure our primitive DNA analysis may be completely applicable to this organism (if "real"). Our analysis is relevant to humans (or earthbound species in general) and can not account for any variant if found.

I would be more shocked if DNA testing actually yielded identifiable results. A missing link if you will. Then the scientologists would have a hey day.

I'm going to have to go with "elaborate hoax" on this one. :-)

kill it again!

Now if only a little boy had found it and given it reese's pieces to befriend it, then you have a good story.

I think we should stop calling everything strange that we find for the first time "Alien" most likely its just a different species, :/.

Fake the Alien babys have open eye from the get go. They also eat meat

The voices tell me it's real.

Very interesting....but the sex scandal on the same page at the bottom of the article is even more interesting.

Unfortunate outcome for the little creature and the farmer that killed it.

My thoughts on this whole alien conspiracy:
The way aliens are generally described, would have me to believe that if there is some kind of advanced species exploring our solar system, then it would have originated from an advanced civilization on earth and not from some other planet. That makes more sense to me.

i cant believe he drowned it out of fear...and you wonder why we never see aliens.

DNA is studied with a process known as gel electrophoresis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_electrophoresis

It's extremely touchy and if you do it even a little bit wrong you get nothing but garbage, which is what they are claiming they got. Things like cooking can also ruin DNA. That thing looks like it could easily be a bit oven baked to me. It's got that shiny turkey skin look.

One other thing I just noticed. if it got it's hand cut off by the trap why is it's wrist still IN the trap? Also it's not quite lying on the ground. Did it hover in mid air while it died and went into rigor?

[edit] two more things:
(1) That's a leg hold trap. It is spread open and then is snapped shut by the spring on the side. The thing has its shoulder and arm wrappd around one side of the trap. How could something possibly get itself caught in that fashion? it would have had to slide it's arm under the trap while it was open. The thing is obviously posed, which brings up
(2) the uneven broken floor.
Leg hold traps are for fur trapping because they don't damage the hide. They are not like mouse traps, they are meant to be stepped on. To work they must therefore be placed in an area where something would step. Setting these things up correctly actually entails doing things like moving underbrush around so that an animal will only want to step in one place. The thing is actually placed over a hole in the floor. This can't possibly be where the trap was set up. Therefore why is it there? I think it's because because the floor needed to be uneven to get the thing to look even vaguely natural when placed in the trap. look how it's leg is actually under the trap. How could that happen? This isn't even an elaborate hoax. This is drunken frat boy quality.

[yet another edit]
One more thing. Look at the top of it' head. See that triangular thing in the center? I'd bet money that's it's soft spot where it's skull hasn't finished forming. Humans are the only animal that still is born with soft spots so this can't even be a baby. It has to be a fetus. Any x-ray would have seen that. "experts" my left buttock.

Re "Looks like a dessicated monkey fetus with the toes broken off."

If DNA has been extracted, you can probably rule monkeys out. Monkey DNA is known and, in fact, very similar to our own.

The fetus pic you posted is pretty obvious monkey, DNA would only confirm it.

I wish the article had been a bit more specific with regard to the DNA tests. Is it established --in fact --DNA?

Evolution? Maybe a new species.
What the heck was in it's abdomen?
Looks like a monkey???

funny, looks just like my nephew...

Gollum's revenge?

Interesting story, especially the lab results.

I see a bright future for the surviving creature in the field of pet food endorsements.

Someone stole Michael Jackson's corpse and left it out in the sun!

hmmmmm

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