When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, scientists have discovered a form of life that's thriving on the radiation that's been left behind. A strange black fungus called ...

The 1986 disaster created an exclusion zone where abandoned pets and wildlife were exposed to extreme radiation, followed by evacuation that left animals to survive without human support. Descendants ...

Chernobyl is once again a global headline, but this time for its wildlife. Recent videos show stray dogs roaming the Chernobyl exclusion zone with bright blue fur. The footage, shared by animal rescue ...

Somewhere inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, three dogs have turned blue. Not figuratively, but actually blue. Earlier this month, volunteers from Dogs of Chernobyl were out catching strays for ...

Dogs are humanity's best friend, and this is partially because we've bred them to better suit our preferences and needs. The Alaskan Malamute and Komondor, for example, were intentionally bred to ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...