The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution is something out of a comic book.

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray dogs ...