While watching the news this past week about the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, the former Borough Historian of Manhattan, Michael Miscione was reminded of something: that dog statue in Central Park ...

In 1925, a sled dog named Balto led his plucky canine team on the last leg of a grueling 127-hour dogsled relay across Alaska to bring lifesaving medicine to the people of Nome—the famous “Serum Run.” ...

Balto and his owner, Gunnar Kasson, circa 1925. (Image credit: Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection) After Balto died in 1933 at the Cleveland Zoo, his taxidermy mount was put on display at ...

February 2, 1925 was a day of life-saving (and, dare we say, dogged) determination, for that was the day a dog sled team with Balto in the lead entered Nome, Alaska with an emergency supply of ...

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 ...

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 ...

DNA from the legendary husky whose achievements in part inspired the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is helping reveal how the intrepid canine—named Balto—and his contemporaries could survive and succeed ...

Over the weekend, a new Elizabeth Holmes profile was published in the New York Times. In the piece, writer Amy Chozick spends time with Holmes, her husband, and her two small children, as the ...

When it comes to heroic dogs, Balto is high on the list. The famous Siberian husky inspired a 1995 animated film and was immortalized as a statue in New York City’s Central Park for being part of a ...

The adoption of a Texas husky named Balto marks the ten-millionth pet adoption for PetSmart Charities Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering ...