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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

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. 30, 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

I asked Mother which ancestor I should choose, and without thinking she said, “Anna Mathea.”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

In “Animate,” Michael Bond takes readers back 15,000 years to a time when the lives of our ancestors were dominated by wild animals in a way unrecognizable to most people today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Genetic studies of living microbes belonging to groups considered closest to the ancestors of the first eukaryote can offer key insights into eukaryote ancestry.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

But it meant that as we sat down, with oil paintings of Earl Spencer's aristocratic ancestors staring down at our TV lights, the interview was not just about his recollections of his sister.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Leo has ancestors of Spanish, Italian, Quebecois, Monegasque and Creole extraction -- as well as French, which the polyglot pontiff can read.

From Barron's

I hope, hope, hope my ancestors didn’t suffer.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar