Anonymous ID: f89434 March 3, 2023, 7 p.m. No.18442634   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2649

Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

 

More than 35 years after the worldโ€™s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant โ€“ somehow still able to find food, breed and survive.

 

Scientists hope that studying these dogs can teach humans new tricks about how to live in the harshest, most degraded environments, too.

 

They published the first of what they hope will be many genetics studies on Friday in the journal Science Advances, focusing on 302 free-roaming dogs living in an officially designated โ€œexclusion zoneโ€ around the disaster site. They identified populations whose differing levels of radiation exposure may have made them genetically distinct from one another and other dogs worldwide.

 

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