This year, on International Women’s Day, one of the world’s biggest mysteries may have been solved. Scientists think they finally know what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart was possibly the most well known pilots of her decade. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928, and she was a pioneer in women’s rights.

Earhart was strong and ambitious and wanted to do more than cross just one ocean.

In 1937, she, along with her navigator, Frederick Noonan, set off to fly across the world. On July 2^nd of that year, while flying over the Pacific Ocean coming from New Guinea towards the Americas, the Coast Guard lost radio contact with the pair.

Earhart and Noonan were never seen again.

There have been many, many conspiracy theories regarding the global mystery over the decades, including that they were island castaways, drowned, died on aircraft impact, or survived and started lives among island residents.

There have been hardly any solid leads in the case after more than 80 years.

However, recent forensic anthropology advancements may have solved the case with some help from pictures of Amelia, and some bone measurements from 1940.

Back then, bone fragments were found on the island of Nikumaroro, or Gardner Island, a small, remote place in the Mid- Pacific ocean. D. W. Hoodless, the physician who originally studied the bones, claimed they were too big and stocky, and therefor the bones of a man. After that, he reportedly recorded the measurements, and promptly threw the bones away.

The University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Forensic Anthropology Center decided to do a study on the bone measurements, and using more modern and solid techniques, determined that the bones matched Amelia Earhart’s bones and were more similar to her than to 99% of a diverse selection of people. They concluded that the bones were most likely hers, though without the actual bones, there is no definitive proof.