Radiation is known to cause mutations in DNA ... The implications of studying Chernobyl’s feral dogs go beyond wildlife biology. Understanding how animals adapt to radiation could help ...

Chernobyl has been devoid of any human residents ... Scientists have identified several animal mutations in the area, including a surprising species of frog that seems immune to the toxicity ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26 ... and it had an equally catastrophic impact on the animals unlucky enough to live in the area. When the reactor exploded in Pripyat ...

according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International (SPCAI). Although most think of Chernobyl as a wasteland, the nuclear power plant is still up and running with more ...

SPCA International, an animal welfare organization working to help the stray dogs living near Chernobyl today, backed up Mazin’s claims, adding that many evacuees believed they would be reunited ...

Buried deep within Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 ... with contaminated soil and abandoned structures. Wildlife has returned, but mutations and lingering radiation make it a haunting, post-apocalyptic ...

Children whose parents were exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have no excess mutations, a new study reveals. Almost 35 years to the day after the catastrophic accident ...