Celebrated for leading his musher and team across Alaska's interior to deliver medication to sick children in 1925, Balto's genome suggests he had a varied ancestry and gene mutations linked to heightened endurance
of renowned sledge dog Balto, long believed to be a Siberian husky, reveals he was a mixture of different Arctic and Asian breeds.
Balto is perhaps the most famous sledge dog of all time, celebrated for leading his musher and team on a harrowing 85-kilometre journey across the Alaskan interior to deliver diphtheria medication to sick children in the town of Nome in 1925.
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