Lab testing bone that may belong to Amelia Earhart

Fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are undergoing DNA analysis, which may prove the aviator and her navigator crash-landed on a flat reef and lived as castaways, perhaps for months. Or, the remains could be from a turtle.Three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are being analyzed to determine if they belong to Amelia Earhart — tests that could finally prove she died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.

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