Interesting indeed! A mutation who survived six to eight years? If this was a human being and only six inches tall, then the adjectives should be more along ‘astonishingly unique’, ‘unbelievable mutation’, ‘one in a hundred billion mutation’, etc.
This list of “shortest people” includes people down to 20” (and a 9” baby that didn’t live a year).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest_people
I can’t get a close look at this. What is bonding the skeleton together? Cartilage and muscle which hold bones together, don’t last very long. They disintegrate.