Results of scientific testing on the bone, which was given to the show's presenter by an unidentified man, will be revealed in later episodes.
In 2002, government archeologist Juan Alberto Roman Berrelleza announced the results of forensic testing on the bones of 42 children, mostly boys around age 6, sacrificed at Mexico City's Templo Mayor, the Aztecs' main religious site, during a drought.
Performing tensile testing of the bone-ligament-bone complex, Woo et al. reported the ultimate failure load of the native femur-ACL-tibia complex in younger cadaveric specimens to average 2160±157 N, while mean ACL stiffness was 242±28 N/mm [32, 33].
Testing of the bones and teeth has identified the national or regional origins, age, gender, state of health, diet, and in some cases, how they died.
It was announced by Leicester University "beyond reasonable doubt", after a battery of tests on the bones they excavated in autumn 2012.
A combination of hieroglyphic texts from Tikal, Copán and Quiriguá, together with architectural styles and chemical tests of the bones of the founder of the Copán dynasty all suggest that Quiriguá and Copán were founded by elite colonists from the great city of Tikal as a part of its expansion into the southeastern border area of the Maya region.
Mechanical testing of the cortical bone was assessed by 3-point bending analysis using a Zwick materials testing machine (Zwick A.G., Ulm, Germany) with a 50 N loading cell, where the span was set at 5.5 mm and the cross-head speed was set at 1 mm/min.
Furthermore, the presence of the nail can interfere with mechanical testing of the explanted bones and continuous radiographic evaluation of bone formation is difficult.
On November 3, California police coroners said that DNA testing of the two bones by a California Department of Justice forensics laboratory confirmed a match to Fossett's DNA.
Further studies on hardness should be initiated as they provide another means of testing the strength of the bone.
