DNA Solves a 166-Year-Old Mystery From the Doomed Franklin Expedition
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“Anthropologists have identified four additional members of the 1845 Franklin expedition, including one sailor whose identity had been debated for over a century. The discovery provides new details about the ill-fated mission to find the Northwest Passage.”
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