Villagers who thought they had found a dead ALIEN were disappointed when an expert said it was really a mummified baboon.
This mysterious creature caused an internet storm after it was discovered near Nature's Valley, South Africa.
Residents hailed the corpse — with spindly grey limbs, shrivelled head and oversized gnashers — as proof extraterrestrials had lived on earth.
Others claimed it was a weird cross-breed between a seal and a monkey.
But now a local veterinary surgeon says she has solved the riddle following an autopsy.
Dr Magdalena Braum said: “It was a newborn female baboon, with umbilical cord still attached to her body.
“It was most likely killed by the bite through her scull soon after birth, possibly infanticide, which is very common in some primate species when a new male takes over the troop."
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