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		<title>Moleski: Redirected page to Taphonomy experiments</title>
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		<updated>2009-10-17T19:03:47Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Redirected page to &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/index.php?title=Taphonomy_experiments&quot; title=&quot;Taphonomy experiments&quot;&gt;Taphonomy experiments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 19:03, 17 October 2009&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&lt;/del&gt;Taphonomy &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Taphonomy] is the study of how organisms decay.  It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on [[Nikumaroro]] would have decayed and been dismembered by crabs native to the island.  The bones that were missing from the [[bones found on Nikumaroro|partial skeleton found in 1940]] were presumably carried off by giant [[coconut crabs]] (Birgus latro). To conduct an efficient search for those bones, if they still exist, we need to know where to look.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;#REDIRECT [&lt;/ins&gt;[Taphonomy &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;experiments&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Moleski</name></author>
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		<title>Moleski at 18:59, 17 October 2009</title>
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		<updated>2009-10-17T18:59:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy Taphonomy] is the study of how organisms decay.  It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on [[Nikumaroro]] would have decayed and been dismembered by crabs native to the island.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy Taphonomy] is the study of how organisms decay.  It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on [[Nikumaroro]] would have decayed and been dismembered by crabs native to the island&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.  The bones that were missing from the [[bones found on Nikumaroro|partial skeleton found in 1940]] were presumably carried off by giant [[coconut crabs]] (Birgus latro). To conduct an efficient search for those bones, if they still exist, we need to know where to look&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Kar Burns]] ran the most recent experiment during [[Niku V]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Kar Burns]] ran the most recent experiment during [[Niku V]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Moleski</name></author>
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		<title>Moleski: Created page with &#039;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy Taphonomy] is the study of how organisms decay.  It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on Nikumaroro w…&#039;</title>
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		<updated>2009-10-17T18:56:17Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;#039;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy Taphonomy] is the study of how organisms decay.  It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/index.php?title=Nikumaroro&quot; class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; title=&quot;Nikumaroro&quot;&gt;Nikumaroro&lt;/a&gt; w…&amp;#039;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphonomy Taphonomy] is the study of how organisms decay.  It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on [[Nikumaroro]] would have decayed and been dismembered by crabs native to the island.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Kar Burns]] ran the most recent experiment during [[Niku V]].&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Expeditions/NikuV/gallery/Taphonomy/gallerytaph.html Photo gallery of the experiment.]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Moleski</name></author>
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