Radioactive spiders are real in this Animal Planet doc on Chernobyl
Thirty years may have passed since the Chernobyl disaster, but a new Animal Planet special aims to highlight how nature is still reeling from the nuclear accident.
In Life After: Chernobyl, biologist Rob Nelson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota visit the areas surrounding the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history to discover how the incident is still impacting the animals and environment.
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Their findings are stunning.
In one moment -- captured in the clip below -- Nelson comes across a spider web that is anything but ordinary. He shows that even though these insects are generations removed from the initial disaster, its effects are still causing them to exhibit strange behaviors.
Life After: Chernobyl airs Tuesday, April 26, at 10:00 p.m. ET.
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Sandra Gonzalez was a Senior Television Reporter at Mashable. A Texas native, she spent almost four years in New York City before leaving the land of superstorms for Los Angeles, where she was introduced to these terrifying things called "rolling earthquakes."Previously, she was with Entertainment Weekly, where she wrote about every show that could fit into her perfectly crafted TV schedule and anything ever touched by Shonda Rhimes.You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @theSandraG
