Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers studying gray wolf populations near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site discovered a genetic evolution that may be ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." ...

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 explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic ...

Forty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident forced more than 100,000 people from their homes, the forests around the ...

A wolf trots through a stand of Scots pine less than 10 miles from the entombed Chernobyl reactor, its image frozen by a ...

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...

Across Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in a radioactive landscape larger ...

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