Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

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 explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, wolves in the exclusion zone are thriving at seven times their pre-accident numbers and showing genetic changes linked to cancer resilience. Researchers found ...

Wolves in Chernobyl radioactivity region running among abandoned hoses with cold winter and deep snow© wildlife_outdoor/Shutterstock.com When the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Recent insights into wolf behavior and biology reveal their profound impact on ecosystems and surprising genetic resilience in extreme environments. Studies show wolves exert 'invisible pressure' that ...

A 2,600km² exclusion zone was established following the world's worst civilian nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, which ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone, once a human evacuation area due to the 1986 nuclear disaster, now hosts a thriving ecosystem of wildlife. Przewalski's horses, introduced as an experiment, roam freely ...