Decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, hundreds of free-roaming dogs are thriving around the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

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.

When the Chernobyl disaster struck in 1986, it left behind one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans fled, but the animals stayed. Over the years, scientists discovered that radiation had ...

Within the desolate landscape surrounding the infamous Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, hundreds of feral, radioactive dogs are displaying extraordinary genetic mutations. A recent study reveals that ...

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 ...

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area are rapidly evolving. And ...