In a shocking twist of nature, dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site ... asked Elaine Ostrander, a dog genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute, in an ...

The dogs of Chernobyl ... in the “greater Chernobyl area” descended from pets abandoned by evacuees in the 80s. Elaine Ostrander, study author and geneticist at the US National Institutes ...

A recent study, published in PLOS ONE, examined dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and those in the city, ...

Our goal is to understand how the dogs have adapted to living in this environment, explains Elaine Ostrander, a geneticist from the National Human ... groups within the Chernobyl dog population.

As one of the world's most infamous disaster sites you can actually tour, those who choose to visit Chernobyl might notice something strange; there's a large population of dogs roaming the area.

Dogs living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have mutated to develop a new superpower - they are immune to radiation, heavy metals and pollution. Scientists collected blood samples ...