The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, absorbing low doses of radiation that would keep most people far away.

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the size of Yosemite National Park, and investigating how decades of radiation ...