A population of dogs thrives in the radioactive environment of Chernobyl. This nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, was one of ...

Hundreds of feral dogs roam the wasteland of the nuclear disaster descendants of pets that were abandoned amid the 1986 blast ...

The dogs are descendants of pets owners were forced to abandon after the nuclear disaster almost 40 years ago.

Packs of wild dogs that have thrived in the shadow of the world’s worst nuclear disaster may have evolved more quickly in ...

In the abandoned lands surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, dogs living there are not just surviving -- they're ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels ...

In the silence of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone a curious phenomenon is unfolding: stray dogs, the descendants of pets ...

Meanwhile, this study has found that feral dogs living in the area showed distinct genetic differences from dogs living only ...

The Chernobyl dogs are a living legacy of the disaster. When the explosion at Reactor No. 4 unleashed a radioactive nightmare ...

THE nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl claimed 31 lives as well as leaving thousands of people and animals exposed to potentially fatal radiation. When an alarm bellowed out at the nuclear plant ...

Despite this, animals have roamed these forbidden lands ... New studies have disclosed that these Chernobyl frogs lived just as long as their green counterparts, and their ageing rate was not ...

In the abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where radiation levels remain dangerously high, a surprising community of dogs has ...