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

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life responds to chronic radiation. For years, they have been framed as a ...

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 ...

Now, if you're not familiar with the dogs of Chernobyl, they're comprised of a collection of one-time family pets that had to be left behind following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster's mass ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mystery behind bright-blue dogs spotted wandering the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has been solved, according to one expert. Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a scientific adviser ...

- 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) ...

- 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 ...