In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An area of about 1,000 square miles, slightly smaller than Rhode Island, was designated as an Exclusion Zone where human ...

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 ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: 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 ...