are the longest-living animals on Earth, and their lifespans are surprising, if not unbelievable. Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an ...

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 ...

Chernobyl’s environment is singularly brutal ... providing insights about how animals and humans can live now and in the future in regions of the world under "continuous environmental assault ...

Now, scientists have conducted the first deep dive into the animals’ DNA. The dogs of Chernobyl are genetically distinct, different from purebred canines as well as other groups of free-breeding ...

it does seem like a rewilding of sorts has taken place in the decades that followed, allowing Chernobyl to become sort of a reservation for wildlife in the region.

Mutant wolves roaming the wasteland of Chernobyl have developed what might be described as a 'superpower' - and it could save human lives. Researchers found the animals in the Chernobyl Evacuation ...

For generations of dogs, home is the radioactive remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. In the first genetic analysis of these animals, scientists have discovered that dogs living in the ...

“This doesn’t mean that Chernobyl is safe—it more likely means that nematodes are really resilient animals and can withstand extreme conditions,” Tintori said in a press statement.

The frogs are among several species that have undergone genetic mutation in Chernobyl. The explosion at Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

“I do think radiation levels currently present at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are not enough to produce marked organismal damage in wildlife, at least in most of Chernobyl areas,” said study ...

Nearly four decades later, the Chernobyl Power Plant and many parts of the surrounding area remain uninhabited—by humans, at least. Animals of all kinds have thrived in humanity’s absence.