Sunday, 6 September 2026

DNA Solves a 166-Year-Old Mystery From the Doomed Franklin Expedition

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DNA Solves a 166-Year-Old Mystery From the Doomed Franklin Expedition

“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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