Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portion of the famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race covers the route that Balto and his team took to deliver their serum almost ...

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Balto and his sled driver, Gunnar Kasson, at the unveiling of Central Park's Balto statue in 1925. Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images In early 1925, a relay of sled dog teams carried a lifesaving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Revisiting the films of your childhood can be a pretty rewarding experience. Not only does it bring you back to a time when life ...

In January 1925, doctors in Nome, Alaska saw the stirrings of a diphtheria outbreak, a deadly infectious disease. The closest city with the antidote (a simple antibiotic) was Anchorage, 500 miles away ...

New York's Central Park has a statue dedicated to him, and there's even been a movie about him: a sled dog named Balto. Now he is the focus of a DNA study, 90 years after he died, to see what made the ...

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - In 1925, a handsome male sled dog named Balto led a 13-dog team that braved blizzard conditions during the grueling final 53-mile (85-km) leg of a 674-mile (1,088-km) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. One dog led the way through a deadly blizzard. With Nome’s ...

In 1925, a Siberian husky named Balto was part of a dog-sled team that raced across Alaska to deliver a serum to combat a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. These were some of the protestations to his evil ...

It's been nearly 100 years since Balto the sled dog helped save children in Nome, Alaska from a diphtheria outbreak. Now, scientists are studying his ancient DNA to reveal what made the Siberian husky ...