Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild ...

Wolves in Chernobyl’s radiation zone appear to have developed a resistance to cancer after being exposed to high levels of radiation in the wake of the nuclear disaster 35 years ago, according to a ...

Chernobyl wolves are growing resistant to cancer despite their high radiation exposure. The wolves are exposed to six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans. Decades after the nuclear ...

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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 led to a tragic loss of life and the abandoning of a town in northern Ukraine that was deemed too radioactive to live in. Pripyat, the site of the disaster in ...

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...

Strange things are happening amid the fallout of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Black fungus found flourishing amid the debris in the ruined plant itself may be “eating” radiation. Frogs are ...

KHRAPKOVO, Belarus (Reuters) - Wolf fur grows thickest in winter, so Belarussian hunter Vladimir Krivenchik only sets his traps once snow is on the ground. He and his wife live on the edge of the ...

A dog standing in front of a building in the city of Pripyat near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. AFP via Getty Images ...