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"5 seriously strange ways wildlife is changing inside Chernobyl

Almost 40 years since the explosion, the ecosystem around Chernobyl is unlike anywhere else.

What people expect from Chernobyl is a catastrophe frozen in place: ruins, silence, and a landscape visibly broken.

Now, nearly 40 years on, the exclusion zone has become one of the most unusual ecological experiments on Earth, shaped not just by radiation but by abandonment and time. The usual ecological rules no longer apply, leading Chernobyl to have some truly weird wildlife."

https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/5-seriously-strange-wildlife-chernobyl

5 seriously strange ways wildlife is changing inside Chernobyl | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

BBC Science Focus Magazine