Giant, Meat-Eating Crabs Are the Latest Obstacle in the Search for Amelia Earhart’s Plane

In the decades since American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished while attempting the first flight around the world, numerous theories about their disappearance have emerged. One posits that the pair landed on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro in the Western Pacific, then became marooned when the tide swept up their plane and dashed it against the rocky shoreline.

The evidence is certainly compelling. A 2018 analysis of human bones found on the island determined that they…