Jawbone of US Marine killed in 1951 found in boy’s rock collection, experts say - Most of Captain Everett Leland Yager’s ...
A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified as belonging to a U ...
A mother found the bone in her son’s rock collection in 2002. In 2024, researchers finally identified the person’s remains.
A jawbone of Capt. Everett Leland Yager, a U.S. Marine killed in a 1951 training accident, has been identified after being found in a child’s rock collection, experts say. Photo from Ramapo College of ...
Missing remains of a U.S. Marine Corps captain have been returned to his family after DNA samples were compared.
Ramapo College of New JerseyCapt. Everett Leland Yager of the U.S. Marine Corps was 30 years old when he embarked on a military training exercise back in California in 1951, and it’s fair to say the ...
On Tuesday, Ramapo College genealogy students confirmed that it wasn’t a rock at all, but a jawbone that once belonged to ...
More than 20 years after a child’s mother found a human jawbone hidden in his inherited rock collection, genetic genealogy ...
Yager was born in Missouri and served during World War II in the U.S. Navy. He married wife Betty in January 1944. After the ...
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Everett Leland Yager died in a military training exercise in the skies of Riverside County, Calif., in July 1951.
A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about ...