Many animals survived even after undergoing radiation-based genetic mutations—notably, a number of pet dogs abandoned by their owners during Chernobyl’s hasty evacuation orders. Today ...

Researchers have found that stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have not experienced genetic mutations, despite prolonged exposure to high radiation levels. Following the 1986 ...

and even the nucleotides of the Chernobyl dogs, and found no abnormalities indicative of radiation-induced mutation. “We have been working with two dog populations that, while separated by just ...

Many animals survived even after undergoing radiation-based genetic mutations—notably, a number of pet dogs abandoned by their owners during Chernobyl’s hasty evacuation orders. Today, several hundred ...