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WHAT IS UNUSUAL ABOUT THE STARCHILD SKULL?
The Starchild Skull exhibits two dozen major and several minor
physical differences that distinguish it from a typical human
skull. For an account of the provenance of the skull, click
HERE.
A plethora of conditions
including
Anophthalmia/ Microphthalmia, Apert
Syndrome,
Cradleboarding (and other artificial cranial deformations),
Cruzon Syndrome, Hydrocephaly, Morgellons Disease. Trisomy 13 (Patau
Syndrome,
Progeria (Hutchinson-Gilford Syndrome), and Trisomy 9 (Mosaic)
have been examined as
possible causes for the unusual characteristics of the Starchild Skull,
but so far no condition or combination of conditions has been found that
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Comprehensive List Of Starchild Skull Anomalies:
1. The bone is like no other bone on Earth.
Its biochemical signature is much richer in collagen than
regular bone, making it more like tooth enamel.
2. The bone is uniformly half as thick, or less, than normal
human bone. It is not thin in a specific area or areas due to
abnormality, it is thin all over.
3. The skull itself weighs half as much as human skulls of
comparable size.
4. The surface of normal human bone is liberally sprinkled with
what are called lacunae, which perform the vital function of
replacing old bone cells with new ones. Astonishingly, the
Starchild bone shows no lacunae.
5. Inside the matrix of the Starchild bone is woven a variety of
what we now call “fibers” but which might be something else
entirely. All we know is that these fibers are highly durable
and completely inexplicable. No other bone known on Earth has
anything even approximating such fibers.
6. Inside all bones are cancellous holes. They produce and carry
marrow. After death, bacteria scour those holes sparkling clean
of all marrow. The Starchild Skull exhibits a reddish residue in
many of its cancellous holes. We have no idea what it is, but
it, too, is unique among all Earth species.
7. In the front of the Starchild Skull, the mid-face is
completely different from a typical human. The entire mid-face
is greatly reduced in size.
8. It has no brow ridges, which all primates have. Its forehead
is smoothly curved straight down to its upper eye sockets,
unlike any higher primate.
9. When a human forehead reaches its upper eye sockets, normally
there is a sharp drop down to the pinched-together bones that
create the upper nose. In the Starchild there is no drop. The
nose extends straight and smooth from the forehead, staying wide
and flat until the point where it is broken off. This is wildly
different from not just humans, but from all other higher
primates.
10. The Starchild Skull’s eye sockets are two of its most
unusual features. Normal human eye sockets are 2 inches deep and
shaped into rectangles. The Starchild’s are 0.7 inches at
maximum depth and curved into ovals.
11. The optic foramens are the openings in the back of a human
eye socket which let in the optic nerve and all the other nerves
and blood vessels that “feed” each eyeball and allow it to
function. Muscles surround each one to make them move in all
directions while they remain deep in the sockets.
12. The Starchild’s optic foramens have shifted dramatically
downward and inward so they rest against the nose at a position
of 5 o’clock. Any human-sized eyeballs attached to them would
bulge off the face like frog eyes, a dangerous situation for any
child growing up with eyes easy to dislodge.
13. The inner surfaces of the Starchild’s eye sockets appear to
any visual inspection to be perfectly smooth. No convolutions
can be seen on their surfaces. Yet the sensitive nerve endings
of a forefinger can feel distinct convolutions in each eye
socket, and each one is exactly the same. Such incredibly
precise symmetry is rarely seen in humans, and can only have
come from a much different set of genetic instructions than
humans get.
14. The Starchild Skull had no frontal sinuses, not even
miniscule vestiges. Humans can be born with sinuses reduced to
the size of peas, but we have found no report of a human born
without any vestige of frontal sinuses.
15. All that remains of the Starchild’s lower face is the right
side maxilla. The roof of its mouth was flat, lacking any sign
of the human arch, and its size is that of an infant rather than
a size appropriate to its cranium size.
16. The Starchild’s zygomatic arches (cheekbones) are broken
off, but both ends of the breaks present unusual
characteristics. At their bases where they connect to the skull,
they fuse at a much tighter angle than humans exhibit.
17. Where the Starchild’s zygomatic arches attach to the eye
sockets, rather than folding into the socket itself, as do human
zygomatic arches, they break off clean and with a distinct edge.
This is a major difference from humans.
18. The chewing muscles that extend up through and under the
Starchild’s zygomatic arches fan out to cover an area roughly
half the area that normal human chewing muscles cover. This,
too, is a significant difference.
19. The Starchild’s foramen magnum (the hole where its spine
entered its cranium) is located about 1.5 inches farther forward
than where it would be placed in a normal human. This is far
beyond the range of normal variation.
20. The Starchild Skull’s ear holes are positioned significantly
lower and farther forward than normal human ear holes. This is
due in part to being pushed out of position by the extreme
flattening of the rear of the head.
21. X-rays have revealed that the Starchild’s inner ears are
approximately twice the size of normal human inner ears. We have
no idea why this would be the case. Perhaps it required a better
balance mechanism that we need.
22. The Starchild’s neck muscles attach in a way that indicates
it was a very small neck relative to typical humans, no more
than half of normal size. And it is positioned directly under
the center of balance of the skull, which is very different from
the way a normal human skull rests on its neck.
23. Human neck muscles normally attach at an elevated point in
the rear center of the occipital bone. That elevated point is
called the “external occipital protuberance,” or “inion” for
short. All humans, and indeed all primates on Earth, have an
inion. The Starchild Skull does not have one.
24. The external occipital protuberance has a corollary inside
the skull, called, not surprisingly, the “internal occipital
protuberance.” Inside the Starchild Skull is a version of this
that is greatly reduced from normal.
25. Though the rear of the Starchild Skull is widely expanded
and greatly flattened, this is not the result of deliberate
binding or cradleboarding. It has all of its natural
convolutions, which means it grew the way it looks because its
genes directed it to grow that way. This seems to be the case
with every one of its many variations from normal.
26. At the top of the rear of the Starchild’s head is a
noticeable “crease” at the rear of its saggital suture, where it
meets the lambdoidal suture. The only possible explanation for
such a configuration in a human would be a fusion of the suture.
A CAT-scan shows this was not the case with the Starchild.
27. The Starchild Skull’s physical size is of a small adult in
the range of 5 feet tall, or an average 12-year-old.
Surprisingly, its brain capacity is much larger than a skull
that size should contain. A 12-year-old has about 1200 cubic
centimeters of brain. An average adult has 1400 c.c. of brain.
The Starchild has a whopping 1600 c.c.! We don’t know where it
all goes.
28. The Starchild’s expanded parietal bones and the steep angle
of the rear of its head strongly indicates that its overly large
brain should have pressed its way out of the foramen magnum
hole. Yet that didn’t happen, so it seems the Starchild has a
brain made of material stronger than normal human brain.
Note from Lloyd Pye:
The Starchild Project is sincerely interested in
finding answers about this skull, and we welcome legitimate input from
all sources. If you are aware of a condition you think explains the
Starchild Skull, please email information about any case study, report,
or other medical or scientific data about the condition. We appreciate
suggestions, but without reliable data to reference we cannot make a
proper investigation.
contact@starchildproject.com
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