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

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 ...

Genetics researchers have sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, shedding light on both the development of this breed ...

Man’s best friend has been our faithful companion for thousands of years. Recently, however, researchers have realized that this inseparability means the DNA of Greenland’s sled dogs, called Qimmit, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...