Greenland sled dogs can trace their origins back nearly 10,000 years. In a new study published July 10 in the journal Science, paleogeneticists mapped the path of these culturally important canines ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

Historic European accounts long described the canids as domesticated dogs. A new study suggests that’s probably not true.

Grace Carroll does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

We all have at least one friend that treats their dog like an actual human child. Scientists think you shouldn't be a hater: There’s 20,000 to 40,000 years of evolution causing them to behave that way ...