New research co-led by Cornell University examines thousands of years of Arctic sled dog ancestry and reveals when and how ...

Approximately half of all Siberian huskies bred for racing have introgression with European breeds, finds a new study that ...

Bonus: A New Oldest Dog Breed? The Greenland Sled Dog (9,500 Years) The scientific debate on the oldest dog breed will remain ...

Explore the world's rarest dog breeds, from the Catahoula Leopard dog to the Tibetan Mastiff. Discover their unique traits ...

there's still no better way than dogsledding to traverse long distances in Greenland, where engine failure can be deadly. Numerous times, dogs have saved patrollers' lives. Sledding during the ...

A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced ...

This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Late one quiet November night in the village of Niaqornat, 300 miles above the Arctic Circle on Greenland’s west ...

Dog-sledding has been a long-held tradition in the north and east of Greenland. But many local hunters and fishermen have given it up and the number of sled dogs has slumped nationwide.

One leads to our modern Siberian husky – smaller body size and stature – and the other one leads to this larger body size and to what we see now as Greenland sled dogs, and potentially the ...