Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greenland sled dogs can trace their origins back nearly 10,000 years. In a new study published July 10 in the journal Science, ...

Greenland sled dogs, known asQimmeq in Greenlandic, have long played a vital role in the Arctic, assisting Inuit people in the harshest of environments. But new DNA analysis of both modern and ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead.

Greenlandic sled dogs, also known as Qimmit, play while resting. Markus Trienke via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-2.0 Man’s best friend has been our faithful companion for thousands of years.

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) arrived in ...

Dog sled culture in northern Greenland is at risk as climate change is causing the ice and snow to melt. In January, temperatures in the town of Ilulissat ...

It gives new meaning to dog years. Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one particular type to be the oldest ...

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