Franklin’s Lost Expedition was an ill-fated British voyage that attempted to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the ...

Concrete evidence of James Fitzjames as the first identified victim of cannibalism lifts the veil of anonymity that for 170 ...

With this research, Fitzjames becomes the first identified victim of cannibalism from the Franklin expedition. His recovered ...

The remains of James Fitzjames from the ill-fated Franklin expedition have been identified, confirming historical reports of cannibalism among the crew. Researchers from the University of Waterloo and ...

The researchers identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, second-in-command of the Erebus, through DNA extracted ...

Ontario university researchers say they used DNA samples to identify a second crew member from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.

The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of Captain James Fitzjames. In 1845, Sir John Franklin ventured to find a ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a ...