They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wildlife has returned in large numbers—suggesting that the absence of humans may ...

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 ...

When photos of bright blue dogs wandering through the ruins of Chernobyl began circulating online, the internet leapt to a familiar conclusion. In a place synonymous with radiation, mutation, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...

The group says that some 250 dogs roam the Chernobyl Plant, while another 225 or so live in nearby Chernobyl City. Famously, ...

Scientists have reported that Chernobyl's remaining high levels of radiation have made some animals resistant to cancer. It’s been almost 38 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster - an event which ...

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 ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...