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 ...

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been … The post The dogs of Chernobyl may be evolving right before ...

Stray dogs run in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images In a new report published last week in the journal Science Advances, scientists found dogs living ...

Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an explosion expelled 400 times the amount of radiation into the atmosphere than Hiroshima, radiation ...

Compared to dogs living just 10 miles from the CEZ, the Chernobyl dogs show key differences that suggest they may be evolving. The research didn’t state what the differences were.

The dogs from Chernobyl City also had variants that are common in boxers and Rottweilers. These segments of shepherd DNA might yield particularly useful data in future studies, ...

The dogs still living around the exclusion zone are likely descendants of pets left behind after residents surrounding the Chernobyl power plant fled the region in a hurry, leaving behind all ...

When humans evacuated Chernobyl they were forced to leave their pets behind, and generations later hundreds of radiation-blasted dogs live on - very differently to other pooches ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.