Chernobyl's dogs turned blue in 2025, and it wasn't radiation. A biologist unpacks the real, verifiable science behind the ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster, feral dogs in the exclusion zone have become both a symbol of resilience and a living laboratory for scientists. Research into their genetics, health, ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine—then part of the Soviet Union—exploded, sending a massive plume of radiation into the sky. Forty years later, the ...

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, families in Pripyat were told to evacuate for only three days and leave their pets ...

The restricted zone around Chernobyl is eerily quiet but one building near the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster is full of barking and whining. The long, one-storey structure once served as ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the region's most unexpected survivors is a population of free-roaming dogs that may offer insight into how life adapts in contaminated ...

Dogs are humanity's best friend, and this is partially because we've bred them to better suit our preferences and needs. The Alaskan Malamute and Komondor, for example, were intentionally bred to ...

Scientists are studying the dogs living around the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. “They are primarily the descendants of the animals that were left behind at the time of the evacuation during the ...

- Andrew, there's something really interesting happening with the dogs at Chernobyl. - Probably wondering, there are dogs at Chernobyl? Well, yeah. - There's tons of them. - There's tons, and there've ...

Could the dogs inside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) be experiencing rapid evolution due to their exposure to the nuclear radiation left behind after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986? Some ...

- There's also tourists of Chernobyl. - Right. - Which is - [John] probably a whole other topic - for another day. - You know what? - We- - We'll film on location - sometime. - We've had. (both laugh) ...