For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, ...

It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

After the critically acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl brought attention to the real-life nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986, a GoFundMe is using the renewed interest in the disaster to raise funds ...

The former nuclear power plant, deemed too radioactive for human habitation, is now teeming with a healthy animal population, a long-term study finds. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...

The explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 left a large area around the plant uninhabitable by humans because of lingering nuclear radiation. However, animals, like feral dogs, have continued to ...

CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE, Belarus — What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the ...

Eerie nuclear disaster site, Chernobyl, has become an unlikely spawning ground for wolves and other wildlife. According to a recent study in the European Journal of Wildlife Research (as reported by ...

The word "Chernobyl" likely conjures up eerie images of buildings long-abandoned by residents who fled the nuclear fallout. But the area in Ukraine is far from deserted, as evidenced by a study ...

Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the area around Chernobyl -- known as the exclusion zone -- remains empty of people, but the forest teems with elk, deer, wolves, and other ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed Wednesday, challenging beliefs that ...