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Interesting BBC article
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:32 am
by lyceum
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 595869.stm
Odd how preserved it seems to be in such an environment!
RE: Interesting BBC article
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:09 am
by mutterfudder
I find it hard to believe that a body could be so intact in a living jungle.[&:]
I guess not much animal life?
RE: Interesting BBC article
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:44 am
by rubisco
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7599398.stm
The suspected remains of a WWII airman discovered in a jungle region of Papua New Guinea have turned out to be the moss-covered branches of a tree.
Hikers on the country's Kokoda Trail found what appeared to be the remains of a parachutist tangled in wires and dangling in a tree two weeks ago.
Australian and Japanese forces fought several battles in the area in 1942-3.
The Australian military sent a team to investigate the "body" only to discover it was a branch tangled in vines.