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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have used DNA from the skeletal remains of four members of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition to explore the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The expedition, which departed from Britain to chart the Northwest Passage in Canada, was made up of two ships and 129 men — there ...

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 ...

The collaboration between Inuit wisdom and Western scientific approaches facilitated the remarkable finding of two elusive ships from the Franklin Expedition. This ill-fated journey, led by Sir John ...

A BBC newsreader has discovered that he is related to a sailor on the ill-fated Franklin expedition after his DNA was matched to a 175-year-old skeleton. Rich Preston, a regular presenter on BBC News, ...

(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 ...