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| [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. 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. | | #REDIRECT [[Taphonomy experiments]] |
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| [[Kar Burns]] ran the most recent experiment during [[Niku V]].
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| * [http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Expeditions/NikuV/gallery/Taphonomy/gallerytaph.html Photo gallery of the experiment.]
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