Meet the Dogs of Chernobyl: These Wild Animals Are Up for Adoption. Published Jul 22, 2018 at 7:00 AM EDT Updated Jul 27, 2018 at 4:18 PM EDT. By . ... The city remains mostly abandoned today, ...

The descendants of pets abandoned by those fleeing the Chernobyl disaster are now striking up a curious relationship with humans charged with guarding the contaminated area. As we head towards the ...

They roam through the abandoned city of Pripyat and bed down in the highly contaminated Semikhody train station. Now, scientists have conducted the first deep dive into the animals’ DNA.

As a coniferous forest reclaims the city of Pripyat in Ukraine, hundreds of species, from butterflies to bison, roam crumbling streets and abandoned buildings. Here’s what four of them tell us ...

Many animals survived even after undergoing radiation-based genetic mutations—notably, a number of pet dogs abandoned by their owners during Chernobyl’s ... 10 miles away in Chernobyl City.

The animals that the team sampled in Chernobyl City and Slavutych, the researchers found, look a lot like dogs you’d find elsewhere. They’ve been born of mixtures of modern breeds: mastiffs ...

After the meltdown in 1986, the area was abandoned by humans. But many animals remained in the 'Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden due to contamination.

They hope further research will reveal these answers. Despite it being illegal to live here, some 150 people have refused to leave the zone, and roughly 1,000 have returned to nearby Chernobyl city.

Land . Apart form affecting humans, the Chernobyl accident also scorched the land around it. Today, there is still a 770-mile-wide Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — the contaminated areas of Ukraine ...

Why the Chernobyl Nuclear Ruins Are a 20th-Century Pompeii. An archaeologist explains why he's studying the radioactive remains of an abandoned Soviet nuclear city.

The Soviet military rapidly established an ' Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' around the plant - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden - and which is now a haven for wildlife.