In the radioactive shadows of Chernobyl, Eastern tree frogs have turned black. Far from a random mutation, this change appears to be a survival mechanism, dark skin that helps dissipate radiation.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Many animal mutations have been documented in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) following the infamous nuclear disaster in 1986, including Eastern ...

Extremes of the colour gradient of the Eastern San Antonio frog (Hyla orientalis). On the left, a specimen captured in Chernobyl inside the high contamination zone; on the right, a specimen captured ...

The frogs living in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, Ukraine, where a nuclear accident occurred, have evolved and have become darker as a way of tolerating radiation, according to a study ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: "The dark frogs would have survived the radiation better and reproduced more successfully," two of the authors of the 2022 study wrote for The ...