New reason behind Chernobyl’s blue dogs

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00:00An update to a story I brought you a few weeks ago about those strange-looking blue dogs roaming

00:05around the wilds outside of Chernobyl in Ukraine. If you need a quick review, there are a bunch of

00:11dogs in and around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that are assumed to be the

00:16descendants of pets that were sadly left behind when the nuclear power plant melted down in 1986.

00:22A local charity, Dogs of Chernobyl, exists to keep an eye on these pups, and that charity

00:28recently noticed that a bunch of them had turned blue, like bluey blue, and nobody knew why.

00:34Are they cute nuclear mutant dogs? Well, that's kind of what we all thought, but a new theory is

00:40much less sci-fi and a lot more yucky. One local scientist says that he believes the dogs came

00:48across a knocked-over port-a-potty and the blue hue came from rolling around in the stuff. We've all

00:55unfortunately spent some time with Johnny on the spot, and we know that there's something blue

01:01floating around in the depth, so yeah, yucky, but they're still super adorable, and we can't even

01:06pet them anyway, so whatever. As for the radiation mutations, while the blue color is likely a much

01:14more innocent cause, a recent study did find that some of the pooches in the area had developed a

01:19mutation that protected them from radiation in that area. Now, it remains at a level six times greater

01:26than what is allowed for humans, and it's expected to remain that way for 3,000 years.