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

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through ...

For years, scientists have kept a close eye on the animals around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the hopes of learning from the one-of-a-kind accidental radiation exposure experiment currently ...

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

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

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...