How The Animals Inside Chernobyl Not Only Survive But Thrive

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Nature is a lot of things, beautiful, captivating, enthralling and more. But above all, it is resilient. Recently, this was proved when researchers in Poland found a colony of ants trapped inside an abandoned nuclear power plant.

What was supposed to be a simple discovery turned into once in a lifetime look at the extreme lengths animals take to survive in inhospitable conditions and how we humans should learn a few things from one of the smallest insects in the world.