Modern sled dogs - Arctic-adapted breeds like the Greenland sled dog, Alaskan Malamute and Husky - share ancient Siberian roots and represent a distinct genetic lineage that likely emerged as the ...

Scientists have traced the ancestry of modern sled dogs, such as Siberian huskies and Alaskan malamutes, all the way back to the end of the last ice age, highlighting an extraordinarily long period of ...

When and where were dogs first domesticated? What were their first jobs? Despite decades of arguments and studies, we still don’t know the answers to these questions. But based on archaeological ...

Balto and his owner, Gunnar Kasson, circa 1925. (Image credit: Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection) After Balto died in 1933 at the Cleveland Zoo, his taxidermy mount was put on display at ...

Fossils and modern DNA show the ancient roots of Arctic sled dogs. By James Gorman There are two broad stories about dogs and humans. One is of a deep and meaningful partnership between two species ...

Street sledding, a popular pastime in Norway, is an activity that is slowly dwindling in popularity, at least as far as [Justin] aka [Garage Avenger] has noticed. It used to be a fun way of getting ...

Sled dogs have been helping humans survive in the Arctic by transporting them over long distances for at least 9,500 years, researchers have concluded. Sled dogs — which include the Husky, Alaskan ...

June 26 (UPI) --Modern sled dogs are part of an ancient lineage, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. Genetic analysis suggests sled dogs emerged much earlier than previously ...

The Siberian husky Balto saved a town from a diphtheria outbreak. Now he's helping reveal the genetics of working dogs, 90 years after his death. Reading time 2 minutes Balto the sled dog is famous ...

How did sled-dogs evolve? In a recent June issue of one of the two most prestigious scientific journals, (i.e. Science,) a group of 35 researchers published an article arguing that "Arctic-adapted ...

Ancient dogs adapted for freezing cold helped early humans survive in the Arctic more than 10,000 years ago, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science. The study compares the ...