For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Nearly three decades since the disaster and it seems the birds living in the exclusion zone around ...

The former nuclear power plant, deemed too radioactive for human habitation, is now teeming with a healthy animal population, a long-term study finds. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986. Studies have ...