A SHOCK discovery in mutant black frogs could lead to humans returning to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone. Scientists have hoped their findings would bring civilisation back to one of the world's worst disaster site. Advertisement 6 Scientists revealed how black frogs (left) in Chernobyl could bring civilisation back to the disaster zone Credit: Credit: Pen News/German Orizaola-Pablo Burraco 6 The result of a 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine Credit: Getty - Contributor 6 A 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, caused the the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in history.
A 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone was created around the disaster site to avoid cancer-causing radiation, and only around 1,000 residents have returned to the area, in the nearly four decades since they fled. Despite this, animals have roamed these forbidden lands and claimed this area as home. One of these creatures has been the unique eastern tree frogs living near the site in northern Ukraine.
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