Atacama mummy’s deformities were unduly sensationalized
MUMMIFIED The 6-inch-long body of a fetal mummy known as Ata, who scientists now say was a female, was preserved due to the arid conditions of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
S. Bhattacharya et al/Genome Research 2018
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