Occasionally, these things happen. The Little People get found.

In this current case, still under investigation, the vacationing Henriquez Carreño family found an ill, seven-centimeter-long humanoid creature under a bush. It stayed alive for eight days, occasionally opening its eyes. Shortly after it died, it showed advanced signs of decomposition, virtually mummifying itself overnight.

At first, scientists thought it might be the body of a fetal animal, but the bones are apparently too well-formed and joined together for that to be the case.

The official explanation: the body actually belongs to a small marsupial known as a "mountain monkey," a mouse-like creature something like a possum.

The problem lies in the comparison:

Could these be the same creatures? If not, what did the family find?

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