Bone fragment found by TIGHAR

Tests of a bone fragment that could have been from Earhart’s finger are, to date, inconclusive. The bone fragment was found on Nikumaroro, where a large and growing body of circumstantial evidence suggests the missing flyer and her navigator landed and lived for a time as castaways only to eventually perish on the uninhabited, waterless atoll.

DNA tests have been inconclusive, but researchers say the finger-like fragment is from neither a fish nor a bird. Because the process of DNA testing is destructive to the material by nature, researchers have decided that further testing on any of the bone fragments should await the development of new technologies and techniques.