What do reindeer running through the streets, dog sled races, fireworks, and seal-hide blanket tosses have in common? They’re ...

Like any good origin story, exactly how the Fur Rendezvous Festival’s annual Running of the Reindeer event came to be depends ...

Like the reindeer, it has two layers of fur: an outer layer that is thicker to protect the softer, denser inner layer. Although it looks white, the fur is actually transparent and the animal’s ...

Another potential extension, they say, would be to pursue questions about the ice-free properties of other Arctic mammals such as reindeer, the arctic fox and wolverine. “It would be interesting to ...

There’s a social side to the competition, of course: a winter village grows up around the track, where herders can browse for cow-bells, snow-mobiles and fox-fur hats. And at night, there’s dancing ...