Bow wow! Descendants of the dogs exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the Soviet Chernobyl plant meltdown in 1986 might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast ...

Ukraine How the wild dogs of Chernobyl survive — and what humans could learn from them Scientists are observing 302 free-roaming dogs near the disaster site ...

Mousseau has been working in the Chernobyl region since the late 1990s and began collecting blood from the dogs around 2017. Some of the dogs live in the power plant, a dystopian, industrial setting.