Not evolution, but adaption?
They are, after all, still dogs.
Beat me to it. This stuff is really only interesting if a particular species becomes a different species. And although the experts have confidence that this has occurred many times, no one has ever actually seen it. Dogs stay dogs. Fruit flies stay fruit flies.
As the article points out, the Chernobyl wild dogs have been inbred to a significantly higher degree than usual. If I have it right, a more limited gene pool would increase the speed of beneficial adaptation through random mutation, while at the same time the higher background radiation might increase the overall rate of mutation.
They are, after all, still dogs.
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Yes they are, but they are telepathic and can levitate.