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Theory: Giant coconut crabs may have eaten Amelia Earhart after 1937 crash landing

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Theory: Giant coconut crabs may have eaten Amelia Earhart after 1937 crash landing

The resurfaced theory that giant coconut crabs ate Amelia Earhart is linked to the idea that she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, survived an emergency landing on the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro Island in July 1937. Coconut crabs are the world's largest land-living arthropods and…

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