Greenland sled dogs. Image: (Carsten Egevang/Qimmeq) Domesticated dogs appeared at some point between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago, having diverged from an extinct wolf species.

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 ...

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.

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise that the migration patterns of these dogs mirror those of humans through ...

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 ...

A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July 10 in Science, suggests that humans (and their sled dogs ...

ILULISSAT, Greenland — When Stella Davidsen Olsen was 12 years old, her father presented her and her twin sister with a choice. Her family owned sled dogs, which can be expensive and a lot of work.

She didn’t. But a lot of people talked about this as the mushers did their work. Greenland’s national dog sled race in Sisimiut, Greenland, on Saturday. Video by Maya Tekeli ...

The history of dog sledding in Greenland is more than 4,000 years old and has played a key role for generations of Arctic peoples, including the Thule, predecessors of the Inuit, according to ...

Jerusalem Post / Archaeology Greenland's ancient sled dogs reveal unique genetic lineage Despite historical accounts, study finds minimal wolf ancestry in Qimmeq sled dogs.