The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has quickly become a 1,000 square-mile science experiment, as experts use the highly irradiated zone as a chance to understand animal biology placed under those ...

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

In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...

First, the mutant wolves of Chernobyl, then black mold and now bacteria - the common factor between these three is that they are all thriving in extremely radioactive environments. Scientists were ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: 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 ...