Balto and his owner, Gunnar Kasson, circa 1925. (Image credit: Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection) After Balto died in 1933 at the Cleveland Zoo, his taxidermy mount was put on display at ...

[In the player above, watch a previous New Day Cleveland segment on upcoming spring and summer camps at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.] CLEVELAND (WJW) — One “damn fine dog” whose lifesaving ...

DNA from the legendary husky whose achievements in part inspired the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is helping reveal how the intrepid canine—named Balto—and his contemporaries could survive and succeed ...

The Siberian husky Balto saved a town from a diphtheria outbreak. Now he's helping reveal the genetics of working dogs, 90 years after his death. Reading time 2 minutes Balto the sled dog is famous ...

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 lead of ...

Sure, you've heard of storm chasers. That's just not much of an option for Southern California photographers, really. Last year, however, when a red tide's bacteria lit up the coastline from Ventura ...

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 Run.” ...

The sled dog Balto has been celebrated in books and movies for his role in delivering desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Now, his DNA has enabled scientists to explore ...