Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild ...

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.

'Rapidly-evolving' dogs and frogs that change colour are some of the bizarre animal mutations reported at the radioactive Chernobyl site nearly 40 years on from the nuclear disaster. Scientists ...

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 ...

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl ...

When photos of bright blue dogs wandering through the ruins of Chernobyl began circulating online, the internet leapt to a ...

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NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – Mutant wolves around Chernobyl, where the world’s worst nuclear accident took place 35 years ago, have now developed anti-cancer abilities, an advance that may open the door for ...

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