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Greenlandic sled dogs, also known as Qimmit, play while resting. Markus Trienke via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-2.0 Man’s best friend has been our faithful companion for thousands of years.

The Inuit arrived in Greenland several hundred years earlier than previously believed, according to a study that mapped the genetics of sled dogs conducted by researchers from institutions including ...