The dogs of Chernobyl may be evolving right before our eyes

Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That’s a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ).

Ever since the Chernobyl disaster in the 1980s, scientists have been keeping a close eye on the CEZ. The goal was to see how animals within the area adapted to the increased radiation, and so far, those observations have netted some interesting finds.

For instance...