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Scientists returned to Chernobyl... then they found the mutant dogs

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, thousands of dogs continue living around the abandoned exclusion ...
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Radiation Feeding Fungus and Mutant Wildlife Thrive in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Nearly 40 years after the catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, scientists continue to uncover surprising forms of life thriving where humans cannot. Among the most extraordinary discoveries is ...
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The Resilience of Life: How Chernobyl’s “Mutant” Wildlife Is Rewriting the Rules of Survival

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...
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The Mutant Wolves of Chernobyl Have Evolved to Survive Cancer

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam ...
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40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...