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Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone and the mutations are hard to ignore

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

In 1986, Chernobyl’s reactor blast forced residents to leave dogs behind; decades later, 302 dogs formed distinct genetic groups 15 km apart

A study of 302 Chernobyl dogs found distinct genetic populations near the nuclear plant and in Chernobyl City, about 15 km ...
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Chernobyl’s Dogs Are Evolving Faster Than Scientists Expected

According to Arezki Amiri at The Daily Galaxy, a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances has revealed that the dogs living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) are undergoing rapid genetic ...
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The Resilience of Life: How Chernobyl’s “Mutant” Wildlife Is Rewriting the Rules of Survival

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion ...
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Chernobyl has become a wildlife haven 40 years after explosion: Study

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Scientists in Europe say the area around the ill-fated Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine has become a ...
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Dogs in Chernobyl Are Now Turning Blue

Chernobyl is once again a global headline, but this time for its wildlife. Recent videos show stray dogs roaming the Chernobyl exclusion zone with bright blue fur. The footage, shared by animal rescue ...
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Chernobyl and its wildlife: Part two

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife consequences from the ionizing radiation, especially in the areas that ...
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Wildlife Thriving in Chernobyl Despite Nuclear Reactor Accident Three Decades Ago

Nuclear power plants are incredibly good at what they do, but when things go wrong, the results are disastrous. That’s why when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine had a reactor accident in ...
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Chernobyl is too radioactive for humans – but wild animals are thriving like never before

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world's wildest horses roam free. Przewalski's horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – ...
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Chernobyl and its wildlife

On April 26, 2026, less than six months from now, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster (in the relatively short history of nuclear power), at Chernobyl, ...
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Even after Russia captured Chernobyl, the wildlife cameras kept recording

A lynx in Chernobyl, Ukraine, during the Russian occupation. A rare camera-trap study logged the effects of armed conflict on wild animals in real time. — Photos: Frankfurt Zoological Society, ...