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.

It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution is something out of a comic book.

Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. The accident in what was then the Soviet Union emitted more than 400 times ...