Inuit sled dogs have changed little since people migrated to the North American Arctic across the Bering Strait from Siberia with them, ... Preserving an important history.

The legacy of these Inuit dogs survives today in Arctic sled dogs, making them one of the last remaining descendant populations of indigenous, pre-European dog lineages in the Americas.

Together with genomes from modern wolves and domesticated dogs, the team revealed that, remarkably, sled dogs haven’t interbred with gray wolves in the past 9,500 years, unlike other breeds.

To identify exactly what a sled dog's bones would look like, Losey is analyzing the remains of sled dogs from historic Inuit communities, early 20 th century sled dogs (including dogs from Robert ...

The results show that modern sled dogs in Greenland – whose ancestors were taken there by Inuit people around 850 years ago – are more closely related to the 9500-year-old Zhokhov dog than to ...

Dog sleds that have carried Inuit hunters since the earliest times are now helping tow high technology across the Arctic to investigate the latest global warming-related changes in sea ice there.

The sled dogs’ genetic history aligns with archaeological evidence. Together, the findings suggest the dogs have been established for nearly 10,000 years and have spent those many millennia ...

The Polar Inuit's bond with the sled dog remains intact, thanks to a ban on snowmobiles. ... He took all three pieces and sold them to the AmericanMuseum of Natural History in New York City.

She says they also provide a history of housing, policing, health care and relocations during that era. ... when an epidemic wiped out sled dogs in Inuit camps throughout Cumberland Sound.

A Greenland sled dog. Image: (Carsten Egevang/Qimmeq) A major finding of the paper is the realization that this genetic continuity has not ended and that “modern sled dogs have most of their ...

Inuit sled dogs have changed little since people migrated with them to the North American Arctic across the Bering Strait from Siberia, according to researchers who have examined DNA from the dogs ...