Researchers analyzed ancient and modern genetic samples of the Greenlandic Qimmit breed to shed light on the long ...

Genomic data shed light on how populations of sled dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...

A study published on July 10 in the journal Science maps the path of Greenland sled dogs from their ancient origins to the present day. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 92 dogs from regions of ...

A Greenland sled dog. Image: (Carsten Egevang/Qimmeq) A major finding of the paper is the realization that this genetic continuity has not ended and that “modern sled dogs have most of their ...

In the frozen reaches of Greenland, a humble dog sits beneath a sky smeared with pale sun. Its breath makes tiny clouds in the cold air. Its paws, broad and calloused, press into the snow. This is the ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

For centuries, when Greenland hunters noticed that their dog teams had begun to lose their vitality, they had a simple solution -- breed them with wolves.

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 ...

Other living dog lineages that share this common ancestry with Balto include Greenland sled dogs, Vietnamese village dogs, and Tibetan mastiffs.