The Mutated Animals of Chernobyl
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The animals in Chernobyl are… different.
Our research is based on the following sources, among others:
https://www.geo.de/natur/tierwelt/tschernobyl–tiere-in-der-todeszone-30169168.html
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/scientists-cant-agree-about-chernobyls-impact-wildlife
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1198909263
http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/papers/Moller-Mousseau-TREE-2016.pdf
Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kp5Piq6LD4Y_WHQ1_KIA-zJlMbY3FYwSgdeS6KDCKnU/edit?usp=sharing
Music list:
Frank Schlimbach – Art of a Dead Man
Ace – Root Canal – Stripped Version
DaniHaDani – Don’t Look Back
Jimmy Svensson – Dark Blood
Oliver Michael – Witness
Fabien Fustinoni – Between Light and Shadow
Rob Cawley – Black Flowers
2050 – Electric Boost
Theatre of Delays – Aurora Waves
Alon Peretz – I Did It
Roie Shpigler – Five Sense Prison
Jimmy Svensson – Discovery
DaniHaDani – In the Deep
Gruber – The Uprising
Yehezkel Raz – A Journey’s Epilogue – Instrumental Version
ES_After the Fall – Max Anson
Theatre of Delays – Horizon
Ace – Root Canal
Roie Shpigler – Jinx – Short Version B
Ella Joy Meir – Through the Wilderness
Or Chausha – Lost the Moment – Stripped Version
Josh McCausland – A Town Called Dismal
Tamuz Dekel – Blue Beings
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Armchair documentaries, almost weekly
@fern-tv
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
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@Eatmorepaper
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Why did the “radiation” that was hitting the dna look like a water molecule? And why did it look like the uranium look like a clump of water?
@DanBoy-c3l
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
The wolves are still wolves. They will always be wolves.
@puulpss
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
thank u so much for not using AI for your animations. you can sense their quality hardcore and it's great!
@ishnifusmeadle
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Side note. "Witches brooms" arecommon. Sorta. They grow all over the forest and theres actually a marlet for em.
@DudeWatIsThis
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Maaan I wanted cool mutations like cannibal deer and zombie dogs. What the fuck is this sad shit?
@SudroKK
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
why is it that it!s always either the Russians or the Americans that ruin something for others…
@djice9891
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Nothing survives here…
Fungus hole my beer
@f3ver-dr34m
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
6:35 i think you mean Brainstorms
@TheMageCat
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
17:13 Russians doing Russian stuff..
@Helliousx
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
nope im not gonna play stalker again u cant force me
@Raphael-y6w7z
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
2:29
Yes the "Red (communism)" forest
@2LOVEnotWAR
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
17:42 sad ..yet avoidable…we as human tolerate those in power for way too long doing deeds against the best interests of humanity ,nature,world and existence…they act like parasites ,what does the immune system do to such?🥸🫵💯
@2LOVEnotWAR
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
15:16 punny human who lives 80 years can not comprehend and inner stand the long term outcome of primary mutations and evolution traits in a time window more than 100+ years as he is incapable of seeing and experiencing the outcome.
@2LOVEnotWAR
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
9:21 dont like the bad cgi and ai images…this shapes impression,..👎💯
@Skshdgajkwudhd
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
6:43 I saw the forest of these crooked trees in Kyiv region and never thought about how they might've originated, like i knew that it's only Dnipro that separates me from the place of explosion, but really? Damn. And these bugs too 9:06 we're more abundant than in other regions
@UsadaKensetsu_Mercenaries
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
You missed blind dogs, pseudo dogs, psy dogs, fleshes, boars, snorks, chimeras, pseudogiants, bloodsuckers, rodents, cats, heck even a deer can call those mutants for aid
@petter5721
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
We need more safe nuclear power ⭐️
@KulaGGin
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
AI Slot. This kind of trees and the spider web is normal for Ukraine and Europe. I've see one like that back at home that's pretty far from Chernobyl.
@Exio407
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
India number 1 at scamming “ello dis is Justin smith with tek support how can I elp you todeh”
@grahamelliott9506
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
and the ruskis went there in their invasion, and actually dug in
still blows my mind
they genuinely didn't even tell their soldiers where they were or what digging trenches would do – just sent them there, told them to dig trenches, and then watched them get radiation poisoning …. truly amazing , just wow, you're in a nuclear fallout area and you brought your entrechment tools and shovels, lol
@seekthtruth
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
"Exciting visits to chernobyl" WTF is he a ghoul??
@dirkwestoven2091
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
The four first minutes of your story were so pathetic that even my dog cried and also myself was swept away by my own tears that I could not finish watching this content and even hardly was able to text this message.
@pathfinder1983
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
I'm pretty sure reactor 2 and 3 continue to be in active service until the late 1990s.
@carddamom188
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Chernobyl is also a monument to human stupidity particularly Russian stupidity…
@stco2426
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
How Russian.
@pssstockarena
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
we thank the soviet union for another amazing contribution to humanity. hopefully their decendants wont break the sarkophagus that the West built to protect humans and the planet. Oh wait, nevermind they fd it up in the 2020s again.. What an amazing gene pool that provides so amazing people..
@Dimza-ti9sn
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
What if mythical dark forest with discoloured leafs and crooked trees were based on real radiation zones and truly existed?
@mustard_stronk
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
give the animator a raise
@Ashura_MightyOmega
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
3:29 imagine leaving ur dog….
@Koiruu07
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
i find it crazy that my birthday is also April 26:,)
@kingswagmaster-tg5hy
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
13:04 So, if it's using radiation as an energy source, would that be called radiosynthesis?
@ogburnpaul
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
plant mushrooms to eat the radiation
@grashoppah
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Fungi are alien – change my mind
@LiterallyTable
January 24, 2026 at 12:20 pm
15:25 notice how he says "rapid evolution"? they are witnessing mutation, not rapid evolution. theres a distinction between them which is time. there hasnt been enough time for many of the research to proove that chernobyl triggered evolution
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