The husky is a type of northern sled dog that’s well-adapted for the cold Arctic terrain from which it originated. These ...

The Weather Litter, as park officials have dubbed the five pups, earned their meteorological monikers in honor of a historic ...

Sled dogs have been a fixture with many native tribes of the Arctic Circle for, well, longer than anyone knows. There are many breeds or varieties of sled dog. The Samoyed dogs of the Siberian ...

delved deep into the genome of Balto and found he and his fellow sled dogs were genetically healthier than modern dog breeds.

Chinooks are rare sledding dogs originating from the state of New Hampshire in the early 20th century. These dogs are the state's official breed. The Chinook is also one of the scarcest Animal Ken ...

New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto ... that of 680 contemporary dogs from 135 breeds. Contrary to a legend ...

and they were getting breed ancestry information back that said their dog was not 100% Siberian husky," said Heather Huson, a former sled dog racer who is now associate professor of animal science ...

Boyer said he will ask the Legislature next year to designate the Seppala Siberian sled ... breed, though. In 2015, lawmakers considered naming the Labrador retriever as Maine’s state dog ...