Whether you've watched the beloved animated film or walked past his statue in Central Park, there's a good chance you're familiar with Balto the sled dog. Long believed to be a Siberian husky ...

His heroic efforts have been recognised in a statue of the dog sitting in New York City's Central Park. But unlike what the 1995 cartoon film Balto suggests, it's not wolf ancestry that made him ...

In 1925, a handsome male sledge dog named Balto led a 13-dog team that braved blizzard conditions during the gruelling final 53-mile (85-km) leg of a 674-mile (1,088-km) dogsled relay, bringing ...