Apart from a few pieces of debris, no trace has been found of the plane that vanished with 12 crew and 227 passengers in March 2014.
Barnacles could lead investigators to the wreck of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, scientists say.
A team of researchers at the University of South Florida have found a method to extract ocean temperature records from the shells.So far they have only partially reconstructed it due to only having access to smaller shells on the wreckage but they believe if they can apply it to the larger ones that formed at the crash site they will find the plane.
Barnacles and other shelled marine invertebrates grow their shells daily, producing internal layers similar to tree rings. According to the study, published in the journal AGU Advances, they applied the method to small barnacles from MH370 debris. The official search covered 120,000 square kilometres of ocean, including several thousands of miles along a north-south corridor deemed ‘The Seventh Arc,’ where investigators believe the plane could have glided after running out of fuel.
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