PhysOrg Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Birds in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to – and may even be benefiting from – long-term exposure to radiation, ecologists have found. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, is the first evidence that wild animals adapt to ionising radiation, and the first to show that birds which produce most pheomelanin, a pigment in feathers, have greatest problems coping with radiation exposure. Read the full article on PhysOrg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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