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.

To explore the ancient origins of this sled dog, Feuerborn, Hansen and their colleagues sampled DNA from 92 Qimmit, analyzing each dog’s genome — its full set of genetic instructions.

Object Details artist Van Zyle, Jona Description (Brief) Race cachet carried by a sled dog team of the Ohio based Trail Breakers Sled Dog Club over the race course in the tradition of sled dog teams ...