LONDON (Reuters) - Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed on Wednesday, challenging beliefs ...

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.

That conclusion is echoed in a separate synthesis that examined how the animals’ genomes compare with those of dogs from non irradiated regions. In that work, researchers assessed the mutation rate ...