Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research ...

See a gallery of Chernobyl’s wildlife here. Valentina Sachepok darted ahead while I chased her through a forest in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A camera crew ...

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 ...

Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

Animals Rule Chernobyl Three Decades After Nuclear Disaster. Three decades later, it’s not certain how radiation is affecting wildlife—but it’s clear that animals abound.

Timothy Mousseau is a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He has published more than 90 scientific papers about the effects of radiation on wildlife with ...

Do they have mutations that they’ve gained that enable them to survive and reproduce successfully in this area? asked Elaine Ostrander, an expert on dog genomics at the National Human Genome Research ...

It contains some of the most contaminated land in the world, yet it has become a haven for wildlife - a nature reserve in all but name. Przewalski's horses are breeding in the zone (Picture: Sergey ...

1. The animals of Chernobyl survived against all odds. A faulty design and improperly trained workers are two of the precipitating factors that led to an explosion in Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl ...

Maria Urupa, 73, cleans her home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on May 10. "I've seen a lot of wildlife here," she says, claiming that wolves ate two of her dogs.

A volunteer of Clean Futures Fund (CFF) holds a stray puppy outside the improvised animals hospital just near the Chernobyl power plant on June 8, 2018.

The Soviet military rapidly established an ' Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' around the plant - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden - and which is now a haven for wildlife.