In 2014, the Princeton team attached collars to these CEZ wolves with both GPS and radiation dosimeters, in an effort to understand the population’s response to Chernobyl’s cancer-causing ...

Mutant wolves who roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study.

The gray wolves of Chernobyl, living in a radioactive wasteland since the 1986 nuclear disaster, have developed surprising genetic adaptations that seem to protect them from cancer, a rare ...

The mutants of Chernobyl: How radiation exposure has forced animals to mutate in incredible ways to survive - creating black frogs, cancer-resistant wolves and a NEW species of dog ...

Wolves in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are being exposed to upwards of 11.28 millirem of radiation per day – six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans, according to the study.

A team of researchers from Princeton University first began investigating the gray wolves in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) back in 2014. As time went on, the scientists wondered if the wolves ...

WILD wolves who roam the nuclear wasteland near Chernobyl have developed a ‘superpower’ following prolonged exposure to radiation. Researchers are hoping their discovery of the exceptio… ...

Chernobyl wolves are growing resistant to cancer despite their high radiation exposure. The wolves are exposed to six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans. Decades after the ...

A new study raises the possibility that Chernobyl's wolves could spread radiation-caused mutations to other European wolf populations. By Douglas Main. July 16, 2018 ...

Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild ...

The Soviet military rapidly established an ' Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' around the plant - a 30-mile cordon where public access was forbidden - and which is now a haven for wildlife.