Analyzing wild boar samples was required to determine why radioactivity levels are not decreasing. Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some ...

Homeless wild dog in old radioactive zone in Pripyat city - abandoned ghost town after nuclear disaster. Chernobyl exclusion zone.© Sergiy Romanyuk/Shutterstock.com An area of about 1,000 square miles ...

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In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...