Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since ...

Poo-dunnit? Stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone whose fur turned bright blue likely got their color from ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

April 26, 1986, is a day that will always live in infamy as the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in what was then the Soviet Union ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...

They’re not turning blue. But are the stray dogs roaming Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland undergoing rapid evolutionary ...

A new theory suggests that stray dogs in Chernobyl turned blue due to rolling in a tipped-over porta-potty, according to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We love our dogs and strive to give them the best lives we can, but not every canine is as fortunate – among them are the feral dogs living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) near Pripyat in ...