Poo-dunnit?

Stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone whose fur turned bright blue likely got their color from rolling in a tipped-over porta-potty, according to local animal volunteers.

The periwinkle pooches went viral in October after pictures of three dogs with blue fur were shared on Facebook by the Dogs of Chernobyl program, which cares for strays living around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine.

Now one of the scientists behind the program, an affiliate of the non-profit Clean Futures Fund (CFF), has spoken out after rumors spread that the hounds turned blue because of radioactive mutations.

“The initial reports by CFF on TikTok sparked a flurry of social media commentary suggesting that this might be a response to the radiation in the region. Some even sug

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