The pups around the infamous power plant have fared better than other animals. Why?
might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast.
The descendant of dogs who have lived in Chernobyl since the 1986 meltdown are being studied for their genetics.And, although the long term impacts on the canines’ various lines remain unclear still, “some of [the dogs] appear to be flourishing on terrain now largely devoid of humans and their polluting, disruptive ways,” Wu notes in the article.
Not surprisingly, the lineage of dogs who were exposed, but had some distance from the meltdown, seems distinct from
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