For decades, animals have survived inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. But recently, something unusual has drawn attention.

This toxic zone is now crawling with life no one expected.

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through ...

CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE, Belarus — What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed on Wednesday, challenging beliefs ...

From ancient mammoth tissue to radioactive Chernobyl creatures to the first evidence of new biological discoveries, the Natural Sciences Research Laboratory (NSRL) at the Museum of Texas Tech ...

Exactly three decades ago, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine sent a radioactive cloud across Europe. Within weeks, nearly 100,000 people who lived in a large zone ...