{"id":9223,"date":"2010-12-16T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/12\/16\/amelia-earharts-finger-found-i\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:17:56","slug":"amelia-earharts-finger-found-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/amelia-earharts-finger-found-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelia Earhart&#8217;s Finger Found in Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to a place where humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years and bone happens to be well preserved, you will find bits and pieces of people on a regular basis.  If you go to a Polynesian island and look for bones you are more likely to find a turtle or fish bone than a human bone.  Thus, when I see &#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; an array of artefacts from the 1930s and bones found on the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro suggest that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, endured lingering deaths as castaways on a desert island and were eventually eaten by crabs.<br \/>\nAdvertisement: Story continues below<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery have found what appears to be a phalanx from a finger and two other bones, alongside a host of other clues after two decades attempting to solve the mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected finger is being tested for human DNA. It may turn out to be from a turtle, which have similar bones in their flippers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; I think &#8220;hmm&#8230; I dunno about this&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/atoll-yields-clue-to-amelia-earharts-last-days-20101215-18y9x.html\">The story is here. <\/a> This will be interesting no matter what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to a place where humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years and bone happens to be well preserved, you will find bits and pieces of people on a regular basis. If you go to a Polynesian island and look for bones you are more likely to find a turtle or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/amelia-earharts-finger-found-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amelia Earhart&#8217;s Finger Found in Pacific?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[112],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2oL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}