A fast-growing population of hybrid or mutant pigs is spreading through abandoned areas near ...

The key appears to be maternal inheritance.

A Japanese man in Fukushima has dedicated his life to rescuing cats and other animals that were left behind in the nuclear ghost city. Sakae Kato, 57, has spent the last 10 years in the nuclear zone ...

A Fukushima mutant pig study shows how escaped domestic pigs rapidly bred with wild boar after the 2011 nuclear disaster.

Fukushima's hybrid pigs aren't radioactive mutants but fast-breeding boar-pig crosses that reproduce year-round, creating ...

The success of wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has been well documented, most recently in the Netflix series Our Planet. New research shows that wildlife are experiencing a similar ...

A new study shows animal populations are doing well in areas people can no longer live following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Species like wild boar, caught on motion-activated cameras, are ...

MUTATED radioactive pigs have spiralled out of control near a nuclear disaster zone – and they boast extraordinary abilities.

The daring volunteers who saved two canines from the contaminated environs of Fukushima have released this video of their mission, showing the bold infiltration into the evacuation zone and bringing ...

The villages outside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan are relatively quiet. In the town of Ōkuma, elderly men walk the streets searching for trash or fallen branches to pick up.

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima’s nuclear plant to melt down prompted the Japanese goverment to evacuate a huge area as dangerous radiation spread. The evacuated region, which ...

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima's nuclear plant to melt down prompted the Japanese goverment to evacuate a huge area as dangerous radiation spread. The evacuated region, which ...