In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how life copes with catastrophe. Eastern tree frogs that were once bright green ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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