The Earhart Project has recovered some bones that could help in solving the puzzle of Amelia Earhart's sudden disappearance.

The project that runs under the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) announced that some similarities had been discovered between the recovered skeletons and the female aviator. The skeletons were recovered in an uncharted island in the Pacific back in 1940.

With the help of imaging experts and anthropologist using modern techniques, the arm bones collected were measured and compared with the Earhart's through her historical photos. The findings show "virtually identical" measurements. Despite inconclusive proof, researchers hypothesize that the famed aviator died as a castaway.

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic back in 1932. She and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared during their fight to the East in 1937.

The plane they were using also remains missing.

Richard Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, said, "castaways are really rare in the Pacific, and female castaways even more so," pointing that the skeletons may have belonged to the female pilot.

"She doesn't know where she is, and she has to survive the best she can. Looks like she did manage to survive - to catch rainwater and boil it for drinking water," Gillespie told Live Science in an interview, adding that this castaway also "probably caught little fish and birds." 

Some critics have questioned the new findings saying that the methodology used is not reliable.