A skull and other bone fragments found on a remote Pacific island in 1940 may, in fact, belong to the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. But it may take modern DNA testing to help researchers close the case.
A skull and other bone fragments that were found on a remote Pacific island may, in fact, belong to the famous female aviator Amelia Earhart.
But it may take modern DNA testing to help researchers close the case.The bones were found found on Nikumaroro, a remote island in the western Pacific Ocean, in 1940. But it wasn't until a 2018 study when people began to suspect they could very well belong to Earhart. That's when researcher Richard Jantz re-examined their measurements and found they closely matched those of the missing aviator.Kimmerle has reconstructed the skull and sent samples off for DNA testing. Now, Dr.
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