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Researchers also computationally reconstructed the genome of the ancient ancestor shared by all living bats.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

It begins as a search for other Therouxs in the area around Yamaska, Quebec—the hamlet where his ancestor Antoine dropped anchor with his wife, Marguerite, whom he’d acquired along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Paul Theroux’s travelogue takes him to the land of an ancestor who arrived by ‘dumb luck and good timing.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It is unclear exactly how the sculpture came to be in the Cotswolds, but the family presume it was bought at auction by an ancestor in the mid 1900s.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Frank’s ghostly ancestor had urged him to take charge.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“Whatever chains there were to the past suffering of my ancestors, they were completely broken,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

While Radev said future generations would now be able to pay homage to their ancestors, Mitsotakis hailed the remains as having "incalculable cultural and spiritual but also emotional value".

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Among our hunter-gatherer ancestors, natural selection probably favored those most attuned to animals and disfavored those who were unaware.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She then mapped the evolutionary relationships among those sequences and used statistical methods to estimate the most likely genetic sequences carried by their common ancestors, extending the reconstruction back roughly 160 million years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Sh. Sh. Someone might hear us. If I go to my ancestors before we meet again, my spirit will come to you in a dream. I promise it.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer