Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With humans largely out of the picture, wildlife has returned to the once-settled Chernobyl area. Last year, researchers found ...

Decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, hundreds of free-roaming dogs are thriving around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP). Now, scientists have revealed that these animals are not ...

Scientists have revealed the reason why dogs living in the nuclear radiation zone of Chernobyl appear to have turned blue - and denied that radiation poisoning is the cause. Wild conspiracy theories ...

The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These two traits do not differ, in fact, between specimens captured in areas with ...