In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, worms show no genetic damage despite living in highly radioactive soil, and free-ranging ...

Chernobyl is an area that has been deemed unsuitable for living. Nearly four decades after an explosion expelled 400 times ...

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded. Researchers are now discovering surprising things about the ...

These worms, called nematodes, have simple genomes and a short lifespan, which enabled researchers to study their multiple ...

THE nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl claimed 31 lives as well as leaving thousands of people and animals exposed to potentially fatal radiation. When an alarm bellowed out at the nuclear plant ...

Rival packs of stray dogs scavenging for scraps around the Chernobyl fallout zone may be evolving faster than other animals to survive in one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Scientists are ...

But while the contamination devastated some wildlife populations, others appear to be thriving. Scientists examining around 500 dogs in Chernobyl have identified two main groups – the first ...

From then on, the site was known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ). Their absence allowed wildlife to flourish and thrive in the CEZ, which contains 11.28 millirem of radiation – six times ...

Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Breakthrough on how Chernobyl dogs survive in nuclear ... and what that might mean for any population – animal or human – that experiences similar exposures.” ...

Microscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to ...

And they’re not the only ones. The 1,000 square mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become something of a wildlife sanctuary due to the absence of humans. A volunteer of Clean Futures Fund calms a ...