Piglet Born with Humanoid Face

On Sept. 3, a Guatemalan news channel reported the birth of a misshapen pig, which has a face that looks more human than swine. The night before the pig's birth, villagers say they witnessed unexplained bright lights hovering in the sky, and so they attributed the piglet's bizarre features to foul play by aliens.

Members of the local media ran with the UFO theory — are aliens tampering with our livestock, or is this somehow a side effect of radiation from spaceships?

"The whole idea that it could be aliens or a cross-species outcome is ridiculous," Max Rothschild, director of the Center for Integrated Animal Genomics at Iowa State University and coordinator of the USDA National Pig Genome Project, told Life's Little Mysteries. Instead, there is a perfectly ordinary explanation for the creature's humanoid appearance. [Watch video of the humanoid piglet]