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. This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under ...

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 ...

Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Arctic Northwest Passage, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on ...

Nearly 180 years after they died of cold and starvation in the Canadian Arctic, four crewmembers who perished in the Franklin expedition have been identified thanks to genetic analyses that matched ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA ...

The remains of one of the men on who died during the doomed Franklin Expedition has finally been identified. Commander James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus has become only the second body identified, ...

In 1845, British naval officer Sir John Franklin left with a crew and two ships to find the Northwest Passage between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans only to be lost at sea and never seen again.

James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, penned the last known message from Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to the Northwest Passage. The June 1847 note told of the polar explorer's death, ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin's doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror. The find follows the 2014 ...