A video showing packs of animals with patches, and in some cases, coats of bright blue fur, has left experts baffled.

The Clean Futures Fund said it's unlikely that the bright blue fur is because of radiation or because someone spray-painted ...

Researchers studying stray dogs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the area surrounding the nuclear power plant that ...

A nonprofit organization working in Chernobyl spotted three dogs with blue fur at the beginning of October, sparking concern.

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

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 keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test, it spewed ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...