For nearly four decades the area surrounding the ruined Soviet reactor has remained largely empty of people, yet full of ...

Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since ...

Scientists have solved the mystery behind stray dogs with blue fur at Chernobyl, but many are not happy with the messy answer ...

The blue dogs spotted at Chernobyl are not blue because of radiation but rather because they rolled in porta potty chemicals, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

They’re not turning blue. But are the stray dogs roaming Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland undergoing rapid evolutionary ...

The periwinkle pooches went viral in October after pictures of three dogs with blue fur were shared on Facebook by the Dogs of Chernobyl program, which cares for strays living around the site of the ...

A new theory suggests that stray dogs in Chernobyl turned blue due to rolling in a tipped-over porta-potty, according to ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...