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I’m going to start with a short answer to this question…. … In a nutshell, Arctic dogs are dogs which have been bred over centuries to withstand the cold and harsh conditions in the Arctic regions. There are many types of Arctic dogs, and some of these have the word ‘husky’ in their name. More specifically, some of the Arctic dog breeds are particularly suited to being trained to pull sleds, and these dogs (surprise surprise) are called sled dogs….

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I never knew that sled dogs have been around for nearly 10,000 years! In 2017, on Zhokhov Island in the Eastern Siberian Sea, archaeologists discovered the remains of a domesticated dog which had DNA links to today’s sled dogs. The common ancestry between modern sled dogs and this 9,500 year old Zhokhov dog provides evidence that humans have been breeding dogs since that time. Moreover, the fact that sled artefacts were also present at the same site points to earliest…

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