The identification of the remains also resolved a decades-long debate about the worst disaster in the history of British ...

Over 180 years after the doomed Franklin Expedition vanished in the Arctic, researchers say they have identified four crew ...

Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John ...

New DNA matches: Four Franklin expedition sailors have been identified, including three from HMS Erebus and one from HMS Terror, raising the total known to six. Historic mystery solved: The ...

Researchers survey the NgLj-2 Franklin Expedition site at Erebus Bay. (Image Credit: University of Waterloo) The team extracted DNA from archaeological skeletal remains and compared it with ...

New research has identified four members of the doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage, including the owner of a ...

The failed British voyage set sail in 1845 to map the unnavigated passes of the Northwest Passage and attempt to study ...