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Did the Smithsonian discover ALIEN skulls in Antarctica?

An archaeologist and his team reportedly discovered three elongated skulls in Antarctica.

American Live Wire, a self-described “entertaining news & information” website, published a story on April 2 claiming that Smithsonian archaeologist Damian Waters and his team uncovered three elongated skulls in La Paille, Antarctica. The article claims that this monumental discovery shocked scientists because the skulls are the first evidence of ancient humans in Antarctica.

The article acknowledges that the practice of skull deformation was common among many ancient cultures. But the article then goes on to assert,

The photo of elongated skulls included in both articles. (Credit: Marcin Tlustochowicz/Wikimedia Commons)
The photo of elongated skulls included in both articles. (Credit: Marcin Tlustochowicz/Wikimedia Commons)

These elongated skulls are much, much larger than normal human skulls would be. Purposeful cranial deformation can change the shape of a skull, but it cannot increase the volume of the skull. In addition, these skulls have quite a few other important physical characteristics that greatly set them apart from normal human skulls.

The article concludes by positing, “Now the thing on everyone’s mind is, are these skulls alien? Are they extra-terrestrial?”

But before exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial origin, there are several other items in this article that raise questions. For starters, approximately ninety eight percent of the continent of Antarctica is covered by ice. Antarctica has research stations, but not cities, so it is unclear where La Paille, Antarctica is supposed to be. The article never cites a source for this major scientific breakthrough. There is no mention of such a discovery on the Smithsonian Newsdesk. And there is no mention of the alleged archaeologist Damian Waters on the Smithsonian website.

An article with similar information was published on the website WorldNewsDailyReport.com on February 12, 2014.

Both articles reporting this major discovery in Antarctica include the same photo of three elongated skulls (the photo included in this article). The caption under the photo on American Live Wire reads, “3 Elongated Skulls Found in Antarctica.” But this image is not of newly discovered elongated skulls. This photo is actually of three elongated skulls on display at the Regional Museum of Ica in Peru. The photo was taken by Marcin Tlustochowicz and uploaded to Wikipedia in 2008.

It is possible that such a discovery was made. But it is highly unlikely given the lack of evidence to support the claims made in the two small articles.

Jason McClellan

Jason McClellan is a UFO journalist and the producer/co-host of the web series Spacing Out! He is also the web content manager and staff writer for OpenMinds.tv, and a co-organizer and technical producer of the International UFO Congress. As a founding member of Open Minds, Jason served as a writer and editor for the now defunct Open Minds magazine. He has appeared on Syfy, NatGeo, and, most recently, he co-starred on H2's Hangar 1: The UFO Files. ------ Follow Jason on Twitter @acecentric and subscribe to Jason's updates on Facebook.

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  1. I would like to comment on the pyramid’s in Egypt, to be specific, why is there never a comment about the foundation of these structures? To support that kind of weight it must be massive plus built in sand. I have been there and toured the area, and to think the Egyptians built these structures without massive power tools is crazy to say the least. It took years of planning and monsterous saws and cranes just to relocate Isis’s temple from 100 feet of water and put it on dry ground with todays technology. The Pharos must haves much longer than us in today’s world, because the pyramid’s would have taken more than one life time to build.

  2. Finding prehistoric human remains under the icy wastes of the Antarctic is a possibility because once upon a time it was the core of the Pangea from which the modern continents broke away to drift northward to their current locations. There should be no doubt that our common ancestors existed on the Pangea and while many of them drifted away with the broken pieces of Pangea, some remained where they were, that is, on the Antarctic. Later, the arrival of the ice age must have wiped out the Antarctic human population because unlike the humans in the Arctic who could move south, those on the Antarctic had nowhere to go to escape the glaciation.

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