Bizarre footage showing dogs with bright blue fur roaming near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has stunned scientists and social media users alike, reigniting questions about the lasting effects of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The viral video, shared by Dogs of Chernobyl — a partner organisation of the Clean Futures Fund, which provides care to abandoned animals in the exclusion zone — shows three dogs wandering the site with an unnatural blue tint to their coats. Also Read | Gold set for best quarter since Chernobyl. Miners are doing even better.

Locals claim the animals’ fur appeared normal only a week earlier, deepening the mystery.

TAKE A LOOK AT BLUE DOGS OF CHERNOBYL

Are the blue dogs real — or an AI illusion?

The viral nature of the footage has prompted speculation over whe

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