Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but ...

For the sled dogs, the time change was a sudden shift in a strict daily routine. Prior to the clocks going back, handlers ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

When scientists from the University of Toronto put movement sensors on a group of Canadian sled dogs ... the two groups [of dogs]," said Lavania Nagendran, one of the lead researchers.