Dværgmumien fra Wyoming: Forskelle mellem versioner

Den bedste videnskabelig forklaring på dværgmumien er, at det er en mumificeret dødfødt baby.<ref>[http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/did-a-mummy-prove-the-wyoming-legend/article_d360bb9a-ea9a-11df-91db-001cc4c002e0.html November 07, 2010, billingsgazette.com: Did a mummy prove the Wyoming legend?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226184513/http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/did-a-mummy-prove-the-wyoming-legend/article_d360bb9a-ea9a-11df-91db-001cc4c002e0.html |date=26. december 2017 }} Citat: "...He advertised nationwide for leads...In 1971, the University of Wyoming hired its only physical anthropologist, George Gill...Gill explained that the mummy may not have been an adult. It was a human, he believed, and X-rays and a lung analysis done by Harry Shapiro at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, showed that the mummy was an infant, with a disease called anencephaly..."</ref><ref>[[:en:Anencephaly]]</ref><ref name="Chiquita">[http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/meet-chiquita-a-tiny-blonde--year-old-wyoming-mummy/article_eea4b82a-0525-5fd2-8f78-85f925c203cc.html July 06, 2014, trib.com: Meet Chiquita: A tiny, blonde, 500-year-old Wyoming mummy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150824174408/http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/meet-chiquita-a-tiny-blonde--year-old-wyoming-mummy/article_eea4b82a-0525-5fd2-8f78-85f925c203cc.html |date=24. august 2015 }} Citat: "...They both hold tantalizing clues about those who inhabited Wyoming’s past and what sort of lives they had. Both likely didn’t survive birth...But there’s a problem. Both are again lost and gone...The poster featured photos of the mummy and X-rays of it from the side and front. This prehistoric pygmy was 65 years old when it died, the poster claimed, and predated the human race. All lies. But they made for a fascinating story -- one that could sell...“I was pretty certain the Pedro Mountain one was an anencephalic infant,” he said...Chiquita's DNA indicated that she was Native American..."</ref>

Mumien Pedro blev fundet siddende i opret position med armene krydset, dækkende dets krydsende ben. Den sad vinkelret til gulvet på en lille afsats i rummet. Den vejede omkring omkring 12 [[unse]]r og var omkring 7 tommer høj siddende - og estimeret 14 tommer høj stående. Dets kranium var fladlig, øjnene bulede og kroppen var så velpræserveret at selv neglene var synlige.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Pedro.html |title=Pedro the San Pedro Mystery Mummy] |access-date=18. maj 2013 |archive-date=14. maj 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514000032/http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Pedro.html |url-status=ok }}</ref>

Lige fra opdagelsen blev den kaldet et svindelnummer af de fleste lærde. Mange troede, at det var en dukke. Videnskabsfolk kom fra hele landet for at se på mumien. Et [[røntgenbillede]] blev taget af mumien i 1950 og det blev opdaget, at der var et "menneskelignende" <ref name="legendsofamerica.com">[{{Cite web |url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-littlepeople.html |title=The Little People of Wyoming and the Pedro Mountains Mummy] |access-date=18. maj 2013 |archive-date=13. maj 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513035126/http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-littlepeople.html |url-status=ok }}</ref> skelet indeni. Nogle af knoglerne var brækket, inklusiv rygsøjlen, ''collarbone'' og kraniet. Disse skader på toppen af kraniet tydede på en voldsom død.