It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

Poo-dunnit? Stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone whose fur turned bright blue likely got their color from rolling in a tipped-over porta-potty, according to local animal volunteers. The ...

Stray dogs hang out near an abandoned, partially-completed cooling tower at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.Sean Gallup/Getty Images Dogs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are "genetically ...

The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl ...

Almost 40 years ago, reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, the surrounding area has become, to the surprise of many, one of Europe’s largest nature reserves.

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 explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 left a large area around the plant uninhabitable by humans because of lingering nuclear radiation. However, animals, like feral dogs, have continued to ...

In the radioactive soils of Chernobyl, microscopic worms are rewriting the rules of biology. A remarkable discovery has revealed that some of these creatures are extraordinarily resistant to radiation ...

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Almost 40 years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, hundreds of feral dogs still live in the abandoned area surrounding the ruins of the Ukrainian power station. The canine population is now the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed on Wednesday, challenging beliefs ...