For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That's a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been … The post The dogs of Chernobyl may be evolving right before ...

Stray dogs run in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images In a new report published last week in the journal Science Advances, scientists found dogs living ...

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 ...

This includes domesticated dogs that are "evolving differently" than the dogs that lived in Chernobyl in the 1980s, according to a study published in Canine Medicine and Genetics.

The dogs of Chernobyl are genetically distinct, different from purebred canines as well as other groups of free-breeding dogs, the scientists reported Friday in Science Advances.

The dogs still living around the exclusion zone are likely descendants of pets left behind after residents surrounding the Chernobyl power plant fled the region in a hurry, leaving behind all ...

Mousseau has been working in the Chernobyl region since the late 1990s and began collecting blood from the dogs around 2017. Some of the dogs live in the power plant, a dystopian, industrial setting.

Scientists hope that studying these dogs of Chernobyl can teach humans new tricks about how to live in the harshest environments too.

Chernobyl dogs: A tragic footnote in the disaster's history. The stray dogs of Chernobyl, estimated to number around 900, have carved out a niche for survival.

Today, they’re known as Chernobyl dogs. When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to leave everything behind, ...