Image credit: Anton Spangenberg


An alien survivor from a prehistoric saucer crash? An unfortunate time traveler from the future? A tradesman from a parallel universe? A hitherto undiscovered species? Or a mere freak deformity of a human being? Nobody knows for sure, but no matter the explanation, the Sealand Skull has potential to change the view of the world we live in.

The July 2007 discovery of the skull in Olstykke on the Danish island Sealand did however not make headlines and remained largely ignored by science until 2010. The researchers who in 2008 examined the skull at the Veterinarian High School in Copenhagen merely concluded that “Although resembling a mammal, certain features make it impossible to fit the animal into Linnaean taxonomy”.

Of course, we'll hear the predictable chorus of "large fontanelles," and other proclamations of human "cranial deformity."  But what kind of human "cranial deformity" could explain the enormous, and perfectly symmetrical eye orbitals shown in the photo?  A comprehensive DNA analysis is certainly in order.  And if the DNA is found to be purely human, then it's obviously some extremely rare physiological deformity.  If is found not to be purely human DNA, then we have a major mystery on our hands.  To read the rest of the article, click here.