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 ...

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 ...