For years, scientists have kept a close eye on the animals around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the hopes of learning from the one-of-a-kind accidental radiation exposure experiment currently ...

Caretakers have spotted dogs turning blue near the Chernobyl power plant’s exclusive zone. A team went for sterilization when they spotted three dogs that were completely blue. The team revealed that ...

That conclusion is echoed in a separate synthesis that examined how the animals’ genomes compare with those of dogs from non irradiated regions. In that work, researchers assessed the mutation rate ...