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 ...

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.

Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, stray dogs in the area have mutated to survive the lethal levels of radiation, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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.

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.

Animals, of course, don’t cooperate or follow orders, and as a result there is a moderately sized population of semi-wild dogs living in and around the derelict reactor. Dogs in Chernobyl ...

Wolves in Chernobyl’s radiation zone appear to have developed a resistance to cancer after being exposed to high levels of radiation in the wake of the nuclear disaster 35 years ago, according ...