The 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition was an unprecedented disaster in the history of British polar exploration, with the loss of all 129 officers and crew ...

Scientists have revealed the identities of four men who perished in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition. The Franklin Expedition was an attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through ...

DNA science is finally putting names to the lost crew of the 1845 Franklin expedition. A recent study identified four more ...

Around 180 years ago, a British expedition to the Arctic met a grisly end. Only recently have scientific investigations been able to identify the long-dead seamen. Now, thanks to DNA donations from ...

Researchers have identified four more members of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition, one of whom was the subject of great debate lasting for more than a century. Anthropologists from the Faculty of ...

'The largest, most complex underwater archeological undertakings in Canadian history' recovered more than 350 artifacts from the ship during 93 dives The Northwest Passage didn't exist when Erebus and ...

(CNN) — Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by matching DNA to the sailors’ living descendants — and solved a case of mistaken ...

Three served on the HMS <em>Erebus</em>; the fourth was Petty Officer Harry Peglar of the HMS <em>Terror</em> ...

Over 180 years after the doomed Franklin Expedition vanished in the Arctic, researchers say they have identified four crew members through DNA testing. The findings, published in two separate recent ...