Ever since the nuclear disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has taken on a second life as an animal haven of sorts.

Frogs in the Chernobyl area developed darker skin after the 1986 nuclear accident, demonstrating their natural adaptation to ...

When the Chernobyl disaster struck in 1986, it left behind one of the most radioactive places on Earth. Humans fled, but the animals stayed. Over the years, scientists discovered that radiation had ...

Decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, hundreds of free-roaming dogs are thriving around the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

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 ...

Genetic Research and Findings Recent scientific research has shifted focus to these Chernobyl dogs, presenting them as a unique case study in the effects of long-term radiation exposure. Researchers ...

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 ...

PARISHEV, Ukraine -- Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the ...

BABCHIN, Belarus (Reuters) - We venture out at dawn from a dilapidated shack nestled in a forest to see the animals, although rising early is not always necessary. Still inhospitable to humans, the ...

Vasily Fedosenko is a Reuters photographer based in the Belarussian capital, Minsk. Born in 1960 in the provincial town of Bobruisk, he initially trained as an engineer but late in the Soviet era ...