When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for centuries. The accident released large amounts of radioactive material into ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

After the Chernobyl disaster, humans fled—but animals stayed. Inside the exclusion zone, radiation twisted bodies, damaged ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has quickly become a 1,000 square-mile science experiment, as experts use the highly irradiated zone as a chance to understand animal biology placed under those ...

In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...