This is sad on so many levels it's hard to figure out where to start. A treasure hunter in the Atacama Desert made a discovery of a tiny skeleton inside a leather pouch which was wrapped in white cloth tied with a ribbon inside an abandoned church near a deserted mining town in 2003. Scientists have been studying the bones since that time and have finally determined that even though the skeleton was only 6 inches long and had a conical shaped head and only 10 ribs instead of the usual 12 found in most humans that it was human remains from around 1970. They believe that the baby was premature and also had dwarfism and bone disorders and died either at birth or shortly after. The scientists named the baby Ata and haven't widely publicized the findings to spar the parents more grief.
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