Balto’s starch-digesting ability fell in between the two groups. The new paper helps separate sled dog myth from reality. Born in Nome in 1919, Balto was considered by his owner, Leonhard ...

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 ...

Almanac: Balto 01:57. 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 ...

Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, leave a hearing at the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Courthouse on March 17 in San José, California, alongside an image of a statue of Balto.

As Kaasen rested, he praised Balto, “Damn fine dog.” While Balto and Kaasen only journeyed throughout the final stretch, the ...

Sled dog teams, including Balto’s, transported vials of diphtheria antitoxin in a 674-mile relay from Nenana, Alaska, braving intense winds and wind-chill temperatures of –85 degrees Fahrenheit.

Did you know there was a real-life Balto the hero dog long before there was ever a Balto the movie? Like his Kevin Bacon-voiced counterpart in the delightful 1995 animated feature film (streaming ...

By the end of that year, exactly 95 years ago this week, a statue to Balto and his fellow furry friends was dedicated in Central Park. (Yes, Central Park erected a statue of a real dog 95 years ...

Balto was far from the only hero dog. Twelve-year-old Togo, with his musher Leonhard Seppala, ran one of the hardest routes of the journey, traveling 91 miles .

As of Feb. 2, it has been 100 years since Gunnar Kaasen drove a dog team into Nome with the medicine that saved lives and staved off a potential diphtheria epidemic. Famously, Balto was in the ...