ancestral

In late September, a Kenyan court ordered a pause to construction after more than 100 Lamu residents sued alleging that the refinery threatened ancestral land where they had farmed and buried their families for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Scientists track distinct “runs” of salmon in the Sacramento River, each named for when the fish return from the Pacific and swim upriver to their ancestral streams to spawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

In 2020, the museum removed all human remains from public display as part of what the it called a "decolonisation process" - including the ancestral Naga remains.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Her long pointed wings; wide shoulders; and strong, tapered body were sculpted by the wind, the open sky, and the nature of her ancestral prey—swift birds.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George