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Until now, scientists in Russia continue to be puzzled by the discovery on Sunday at the banks of River Kovashi by two residents of a shriveled animal corpse that some suspect to be an "alien."
However, The Washington Post listed five arguments that belies the thinking by some alien-monitoring groups that the dead body is that of an extraterrestrial creature.
One of the reasons behind the attribution of the corpse to an alien is the statement from Russian biologist Yegor Zadereev that he is unsure of the species the creature belong to. The daily points out that not all details about organisms are known by the Zadereev or other biologists.
To add to the confusion of the creature's physiology, it has gone through some stages of decay. Another possibility is that the organism could have undergone radiation-related mutations because of the Sosnoby Bor's proximity to the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, reports Mirror.
However, despite the absence of confirmation, the newspaper did not discount the possibility it could be a new species since an average of 15,000 new species are discovered annually which further debunks the theory that it is an "alien" corpse.
It did not help that experts from the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk who examined the corpse could also not identify the shriveled skull.
An online survey of Mirror readers said 70 percent do not believe the unidentified and mysterious corpse in proof of alien life.
In the past, there had been similar reports such as when teens in Panama claimed in 2009 to have found a dead body possibly that of an "alien." Six year before that, a different corpse was found in Chile's Atacama Desert. DNA tests confirmed it was a human body.
