The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...

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 ...

After the Chernobyl disaster, humans fled—but animals stayed. Inside the exclusion zone, radiation twisted bodies, damaged ...

Caretakers have spotted dogs turning blue near the Chernobyl power plant’s exclusive zone. A team went for sterilization when they spotted three dogs that were completely blue. The team revealed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

From ancient mammoth tissue to radioactive Chernobyl creatures to the first evidence of new biological discoveries, the Natural Sciences Research Laboratory (NSRL) at the Museum of Texas Tech ...

Scientists find that Chernobyl's grey wolves have evolved cancer-resilient genomes despite high radiation levels. This discovery could pave the way for breakthrough human cancer treatments.

Over a decade of study inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has turned the irradiated landscape into a large-scale biological experiment. While humans fled the area following the 1986 meltdown, ...

Wild images show several dogs near the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant turning blue, baffling workers taking care of them. The alarming-looking dogs — descendants of pets abandoned after the nuclear ...