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, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Most modern Greenland dogs don’t have direct wolf ancestry other than traces of genetic material from ancient wolves that lived in Siberia before 9,500 BC, the researchers found.

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 ...

Genomic data shed light on how populations of sled dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years. Sled dogs in Greenland do not share much of their DNA with wolves ...

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

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.