In 1925, a handsome male sledge dog named Balto led a 13-dog team that braved blizzard conditions during the gruelling final 53-mile (85-km) leg of a 674-mile (1,088-km) dogsled relay, bringing ...

Dallas Seavey is one of the best-known dog-sledge racers in Alaska Alaskan sledge-dog racing champion Dallas Seavey has been named by officials of the famous Iditarod Trail race for having four ...

Sledge dogs delivered munitions to the frontline, ambulance dogs evacuated the wounded from the battlefield. Sapper dogs sniffed thousands of kilometers for mines and bombs in the territory of the ...

Mawson heard the faint whine of a dog behind him. It must be, he thought, one of the six huskies pulling the rear sledge. But then Mertz, who had been scouting ahead on skis all morning ...