A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead. Their results shed light on both the development of this breed and ...

The Untold Story of Greenland’s Sled Dogs Sled dogs have been an integral part of Arctic life for over 9,500 years, enabling indigenous Arctic populations to survive and thrive in some of the ...

The Greenland sled dog, or Qimmeq (plural Qimmit), is one of the few breeds that can still be found pulling a sled. They have been much more isolated genetically than other traditional sled dogs ...

Specifically, the Greenland sled dog–called Qimmeq (singular), or Qimmit (plural) in Greenlandic–has a history traceable all the way back 9,500 years to Zhokhov Island in Eastern Siberia.

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 ...

More recently, the sport has been under threat by a warming climate. The race consists of about 37 mushers and 444 dogs from across Greenland. Each team is made up of 10 to 14 dogs.

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.