It’s the most thorough assessment of the site since its discovery in 2010 and aims to answer questions about Arctic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Douglas Stenton excavates the bones of Franklin expedition sailors at Erebus Bay in 2013. - University of Waterloo Researchers ...

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. Researchers have used DNA from the skeletal remains of four members of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition to explore the ...

'The largest, most complex underwater archeological undertakings in Canadian history' recovered more than 350 artifacts from the ship during 93 dives ...

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They ...

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 say they have identified four sailors who were among 129 who died during a fatal polar expedition in 1845, resolving a decades-long debate about the ...

(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 ...