Scientists Find Clues Behind the Mystery of Amelia Earhart's Disappearance

A tiny sliver of bone found on an island off the South Pacific may finally solve the riddle of Amelia Earhart's disappearance 73 years ago.

Famed as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia Earhart vanished in a record attempt to circle the world's equator. Later declared missing and eventually dead, many believed her plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. But now historians say they have found evidence to suggest Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan may have landed the plane and survived as castaways on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro in the republic of Kiribati.

Many theories emerged after the disappearance of Earhart. The unresolved circumstances of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, along with her fame, attracted a great body of other claims relating to her last flight, all of which have been generally dismissed for lack of verifiable evidence. Several unsupported theories have become well known in popular culture.

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