Dogs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are "genetically distinct" from those living farther away. Scientists finished the first genetic analysis of stray dogs at the nuclear disaster site and ...

A population of wild dogs living near the Chernobyl exclusion zone is now giving scientists a glimpse into how long-term radiation exposure affects generations. The radiation exposure still being ...

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 new study ...

It is the story of Chernobyl’s feral dogs, and it begins not with a whimper but with a nuclear boom a boom that, some four decades ago, transformed a thriving village into a zone of exclusion, and ...

That's saying something because, in time, thousands of kids who lived nearby developed thyroid disease, and the nearest city to Chernobyl, abandoned in 1986, remains deserted to this day.