The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has quickly become a 1,000 square-mile science experiment, as experts use the highly irradiated zone as a chance to understand animal biology placed under those ...

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Almost 40 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, animals continue to face the consequences from extreme radiation exposure, with them being forced to mutate to survive. Humans fled the disaster zone ...

Chernobyl; Chernobyl's mutant dogs ... The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic impact on the animals unlucky enough to live in the area.

Mutant wolves roaming the wasteland of Chernobyl have developed a new superpower that could have life-saving implications for humans.. A team of researchers found the animals in the Chernobyl ...

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.

In the Science segment, we tell you more about the so-called "mutant wolves of Chernobyl". 38 years after the nuclear disaster, animals roaming the exclusion zone are still exposed to high levels ...

In 2014, Love and her colleagues put collars equipped with radiation dosimeters on wolves in the area and took blood samples to understand the animals' responses to being exposed to upwards of 11. ...

In 2023, scientists found the free-wheeling dogs of Chernobyl were genetically different from pet dogs living elsewhere in the world. Love’s discovery could have implications for human health too.

Roughly 350,000 people evacuated during the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, leaving their lives and belongings behind to flee the worst nuclear disaster in history.