The truth is out there, just not here

How did I miss this?  From the undoubtedly highly reliable The Telegraph (U.K.) via the unimpeachable Paranoids On-line:

Mexican TV revealed the almost unbelievable story – in 2007, a baby ‘alien’ was found alive by a farmer in Mexico.

He drowned it in a ditch out of fear, and now two years later scientists have finally been able to announce the results of their tests on this sinister-looking carcass.

At the end of last year the farmer, Marao Lopez, handed the corpse over to university scientists who carried out DNA tests and scans.

He claimed that it took him three attempts to drown the creature and he had to hold it underwater for hours.

Tests revealed a creature that is unknown to scientists – its skeleton has characteristics of a lizard, its teeth do not have any roots like humans and it can stay underwater for a long time.

But it also has some similar joints to humans.

Its brain was huge, particularly the rear section, leading scientists to the conclusion that the odd creature was very intelligent.

The odd creature was apparently smarter than the British press. Mulder and Scully might not have found the truth, but it was out there… in the always entertainingly weird Inexplicata, the Journal of Hispanic UFOlogy who called in Capt. Alejandro Franz of Mexican airlines… who called in a specialist:

“The veterinarian [who researched the case] said that the animal was submerged in liquid to cure its hide; the proprietor of the ranch says the animal swallowed a poisoned rat. Why can’t they get their lies straight? [This] is history-making physical evidence. The story of a “strange being” that a simple analysis – within the reach of any primary school child doing a 30 minute web search – would have confirmed as the carcass of a “squirrel monkey” caught in a trap…

Yup, this probably was on Mexican TV, but I was watching another channel, with something more believable… the badly dubbed report on an exciting new scientific discovery that led to the development of creams to make you lose body fat.  Must have been true.  The guy was wearing a white lab coat.

Oh well, at least Squirrel monkeys do, as the Telegraph reported, have a huge brain.  According to the semi-reliable Wikipedia:

Squirrel monkeys grow to 25 to 35 cm, plus a 35 to 42 cm tail. They weigh 750 to 1100g. Remarkably, the brain mass to body mass ratio for squirrel monkeys is 1:17, which gives them the largest brain, proportionately, of all the primates.Humans have a 1:35 ratio.

I don’t know what’s up with Inexplicata, taking all the fun out of  alien corpses (and the alien fetus from Puerto Rico, found in a a car with a dead junkie sounded so promising). This is probably a website not needing to be looked at daily, but worth perusing from time to time for the latest in UFO sightings (all of Latin America must be an intergalactic rest stop or something), and chupacabra attacks.