For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

Animals Around The Globe. Could Space Radiation Trigger Giant Mutations in Animal DNA? Posted: March 20, 2025 | Last updated: March 20, 2025. High-energy cosmic radiation constantly bombards Earth ...

Wild animals have free range around northern Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which spread radiation throughout the region in 1986.. Studies ...

He has found ample evidence of DNA mutations, but nothing that affected the animals' physiology or reproductive ability. "Nothing with two heads," he says. Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest, a ...

Mutant animals born in the wild die or get eaten before they can be discovered. Whatever the biological costs of radiation to individuals, the fittest survived. Advertisement ...

Once in seawater, radiation can hurt ocean animals in several ways—by killing them outright, creating "bizarre mutations" in their offspring, or passing radioactive material up the food chain ...

This dark coloration may not be the result of genetic mutations caused by radiation contamination but instead, it may be due to frogs that had darker skin coloration at the time of the accident ...

Future experiments using animal models will be necessary to determine the full effects of low-dose radiation, and whether its use in medical imaging has an impact on patient health.

1. The animals of Chernobyl survived against all odds. A faulty design and improperly trained workers are two of the precipitating factors that led to an explosion in Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl ...

Common medical imaging procedures use low doses of radiation that are believed to be safe. A new study, however, finds that in human cell cultures, these doses create breaks that allow extra bits ...