140 years later, skeleton takes on new identity
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 13:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 1845, two ill-fated British ships headed for the Canadian Arctic in the hope of discovering the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. More than two decades later, the nearly complete skeleton of one of the explorers was recovered from a shallow, stone-covered grave on King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.