When you think about dogs, what’s the first image that pops into your head? Maybe a friendly Labrador chasing a tennis ball, a dignified German Shepherd guarding its home, or a tiny Chihuahua curled ...

The dog can “suffer from certain genetic conditions but this is minimised though really good breeding and the oldest dog to ...

In the Ox Mountains, it is usually the sight of well-trained sheepdogs that garners our admiration, as they scoot among a flock of mountain ewes, controlling and collecting in a way that only a ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...

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A new study in Science uses ancient and modern DNA to tell the Qimmeq’s story. It’s a story not just about dogs, but also ...

Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one ...

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland ’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.