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A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

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When Nazi Germany overran Denmark in April 1940, the Danish colony of Greenland was suddenly cut off from its government. Under an April 9, 1941, defense agreement, the United States assumed ...

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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Dog moms and dads, this is your day to celebrate your fur babies, as August 26th is recognized as National Dog Day to celebrate all dogs and everything they do for us. Dogs ...

ILULISSAT, GREENLAND — Just after midday, we gripped the worn rope handles of a dogsled as 11 dogs surged across the frozen tundra of Western Greenland, inside the Arctic Circle. The wind lashed our ...

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.

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Qimmit — a type of sled dog that has been kept by Inuit in Greenland for nearly 1,000 years — don’t share much DNA with wolves, despite a reputation for having been interbred. Researchers collected ...

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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 ...