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Amelia Earhart: Island bones 'likely' belonged to famed pilot
Bones discovered on a Pacific island in 1940 are "likely" to be those of famed pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a US peer reviewed science journal. Earhart, her plane, and her navigator vanished without a trace in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean. Many theories have sought to explain her disappearance.
But a new study published in Forensic Anthropology claims these bones prove she died as an island castaway. The report claims they are a 99% match, despite an earlier conclusion.
The study, titled Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones, was first published by the University of Florida and conducted by Professor Richard Jantz from the University of Tennessee. It disputes that the remains found on the eastern Pacific island of Nikumaroro - about 1,800 miles (2,900km) southwest of Hawaii - belonged to a man, as a researcher had determined in 1941.
Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones (open, DOI: 10.5744/fa.2018.0009) (DX)
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday March 11 2018, @10:07AM (1 child)
And lovely sun rises.
And, quite likely, anyone in that position would eventually start to dread seeing another one.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 11 2018, @12:05PM
Everybody thinks she was a lesbian. Because of the prenup. She lands on a desert island, her copilot is a guy, they're both very sad, right? Wrong! She was bisexual. So she could have a nice time with anybody. And she had fun with many people. If she was sad, I think it wasn't because she was with a guy instead of a woman. I think it was because she missed the VARIETY! And I don't mean the magazine.