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huilfbsdihfkjG THEY DISCOVERED AMELIA EARHART’S BONES ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WHAT THE THIS IS A PERFECT COINCIDENCE 

It’s kind of even better than that.

They actually didn’t find new bones. Rather, a forensic scientist re-examined measurements taken from bones found on Nikumamoru Island back in 1940. The bones were originally examined by some dude back in 1941 who unequivocally concluded they had to belong to a “short, stocky male” because there’s no way they could belong to some fearless globe-trotting adventurer delicate woman. Using new techniques to examine the measurements, the scientist has concluded with 99% certainly the Nikumamoru bones belonged to Eartheart.

So yeah, basically Earheart’s disappearance was only a “mystery” for like eighty years because of lowkey sexism and shitty science. And now we more or less know the truth. On International Women’s Day.

Not to be a downer but, I’ve seen at least 8 separate reports of people 99% sure they’ve discovered where Amelia Earhart ended up. Just a few months ago I saw there was a lot of credible evidence to her have been taken to a Japanese war camp. Also the bones were mislabeled as belonging to a short, stocky male because previous methods guessed bones to be much shorter in length than more modern methods. As she’s obviously slender and she’s listed as 5’ 8 then they didn’t label those as hers. But now it seems they could be. So I’m not saying they aren’t. Just that it’s only another theory.