The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from misshapen livestock to feral dogs with unnaturally bright fur. Terrifying photos of ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) ...

After humans left Chernobyl, animals stayed behind. Radiation seeped into every cell, damaging DNA and altering how bodies developed. Some animals were born with deformities, tumors, or shortened ...

Roaming in the eerie air of Chernobyl, these wolves are quietly evolving resistance to a radiation which is otherwise toxic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent reports of stray dogs with bright blue fur near an abandoned chemical plant in Russia have inadvertently shined a new light ...

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 ...

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to leave everything behind, including their pets. Today, they’re known as ...

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 ...