A genetic study conducted by the University of South Carolina and the National Human Genome Research Institute, published in ...

It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four decades ago, transformed a thriving village into a zone of exclusion, and ...

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 ...

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been a hot bed of genetic study, as scientists examine how various species react to long-term radiation exposure. While the the 1,000-square-mile zone has been ...

A map of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, with dots to mark the worm collection sites and the different levels of radiation at each site. (Sophia Tintori) ...

Worms that live in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone are immune to radiation – what this means for mankind By Alyssa Guzman Published March 7, 2024, 2:53 p.m. ET ...

Mutant wolves who 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.

At one time, the "Stalkers’' attitude to Chernobyl were seen as unusual, but 35 years after the catastrophe, the site increasingly holds a different place in many Ukrainians’ imaginations.

Almost four decades later, the stray dogs that roam near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are genetically different from the ones in the nearby city of Chernobyl—but it’s probably not because ...

Chernobyl wolves are growing resistant to cancer despite their high radiation exposure. The wolves are exposed to six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans.

Previous research has shown how frogs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone may have rapidly evolved melanism to survive the historically high levels of radiation in the region.