Four decades after Chernobyl, something weird is happening inside the Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced ...

Dogs roam the ghost town of Pripyat within the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Scientists have identified genetically distinct populations living in the area, including within the highly ...

Stray dogs run in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images In a new report published last week in the journal Science Advances, scientists found dogs living ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found remarkable differences.

This includes domesticated dogs that are "evolving differently" than the dogs that lived in Chernobyl in the 1980s, according to a study published in Canine Medicine and Genetics.

The Chernobyl dogs are characterized by their big floppy ears and their thick, muscular bodies. "The big breeds that persist through natural selection are the tougher and stronger breeds.

The genetic differences between the dogs near the Chernobyl plant and those just 10 miles (16.09 km) away in Chernobyl city suggest that radiation exposure is having a profound effect. These dogs ...

Mousseau has been working in the Chernobyl region since the late 1990s and began collecting blood from the dogs around 2017. Some of the dogs live in the power plant, a dystopian, industrial setting.

Watch Pop Mech editors Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick explore the strange case of the Chernobyl dogs, who descend from those canines abandoned during the April 26, 1986 evacuation.

Watch Pop Mech editors Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick explore the strange case of the Chernobyl dogs, who descend from those canines abandoned during the April 26, 1986 evacuation. Despite dealing ...