In March of this year, a group of geneticists published a study in Genome Research on a small, 'alien'-like mummy nicknamed Ata, found in the Atacama Desert of Chile in 2003. While those researchers ...

Bay Area scientists have solved the mystery of the strange creature of Chile’s Atacama Desert, finding clues not in the stars, but in its bones. The tiny creature — with teeth, a cone-shaped head, ...