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Bones that washed up on New Jersey beaches were identified as the captain of a 19th-century ship traveling to Philly (www.inquirer.com)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

How did the bones last so long? I thought the sea eventually dissolved bones, which is why there are no skeletons around the Titanic, just the shoes they were wearing.