Meet the Dogs of Chernobyl: These Wild Animals Are Up for Adoption. Published Jul 22, 2018 at 7:00 AM EDT Updated Jul 27, 2018 at 4:18 PM EDT. By . Lisa Spear is a science writing fellow at Newsweek.

See a gallery of Chernobyl’s wildlife here. Valentina Sachepok darted ahead while I chased her through a forest in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A camera crew ...

Wildlife has bounced ... several countries and triggering the permanent evacuation of an estimated 116,000 people from the 1,622 square-mile Chernobyl exclusion zone. But wild animals can ...

LONDON — Some 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and… ...

Chernobyl wildlife today. But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, ...

Chernobyl allowed us to get field information about the impacts of radiation on species populations and ecosystems." For the long-term benefit of wildlife in the area, Motehrsill said it is "vital ...

Chernobyl Wildlife Make a Comeback Despite Contamination. The Belarus region devastated by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is now teeming with elk, wild boar, deer and wolves.

Today, some hot spots are still 100 times more radioactive than normal. But the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone no longer looks like a wasteland–and a new study suggests that some wildlife is thriving ...

Timothy Mousseau is a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He has published more than 90 scientific papers about the effects of radiation on wildlife with ...

Maria Urupa, 73, cleans her home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on May 10. "I've seen a lot of wildlife here," she says, claiming that wolves ate two of her dogs.

The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 had a devastating impact on the local population and forced 116,000 people to permanently leave their homes. But now researchers have ...

A new study of wildlife in the radiation-contaminated Chernobyl exclusion zone has found that many large mammal populations — elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar and wolves — seem to be ...