radiation remains in the exclusion zone today. Despite the radiation in the soil, water, plants, and everything in and near Chernobyl, the animals living there are thriving. This includes ...

Many animals survived even after undergoing radiation-based genetic mutations—notably, a number of pet dogs abandoned by their owners during Chernobyl’s hasty evacuation orders. Today ...

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 ...

Among the things scientists have been looking at recently are the genetic differences of dogs living near in the Chernobyl Exclusion ... while studies done on animals in places like the CEZ ...