Balto’s genetic makeup shows a greater ability to process starches when compared to wolves and Greenland sled dogs.

After Balto died in 1933 at the Cleveland Zoo, his taxidermy mount was put on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Credit: Cleveland Museum of Natural History After Balto died in 1933 ...

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 David Kindy - ...

WASHINGTON (Amazing America TV) — It’s a test of endurance, athleticism, and survival. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is known as “The Last Great Race on Earth,” a thousand-mile trek through ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...