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  • 2019-08-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a 5-Meter-Tall Human Skeleton Unearthed in Australia? (en)
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  • In July 2015, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) entertainment website published an article about a 5-meter-tall (approximately 16.5 feet) human skeleton that was unearthed in Australia: Although this claim originated with a well-known entertainment website — a disclaimer on the site explains that all of its content is entirely fictional and satirical in nature — the above-displayed text and photographs continued to spread online by third parties. In 2017, for instance, WNDR's content was repackaged into a video by the YouTube page UFOmania - The truth is out there. A year later, the website ScienceVibe passed this content off as if it were genuine news. In June 2019, this content went viral again after it was shared by the Facebook page Historistic. The above-displayed pictures, of course, do not actually show a 5-meter-tall skeleton. These photographs were taken in France (not Australia) in November 2012 and show an archaeologist excavating the remains of a woolly mammoth that was found at a quarry site near Paris. The top photograph from the WNDR article is available via Reuters along with the caption: The other photograph shows the same woolly mammoth skeleton. That picture was taken by Denis Gliksman of the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP) and is available on the French website Sciences et Avenir with the following caption (loosely translated via Google): These images do not show a 5-meter-tall human skeleton that was unearthed in Australia. These images actually show an approximately 150,000-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton nicknamed Helmut that was discovered near Paris in 2012. This is hardly the first time that images supposedly showing giant human skeletons have gone viral online. We've previously written about several of these so-called discoveries. To date, we've yet to come across any genuine photographs of an actual skeleton belonging to a real ancient giant human. (en)
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