New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- 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.

"We are on the ground now catching dogs for sterilization, and we came across three dogs that were completely blue," the organisation said in an Instagram post that has now been viewed more than 330,000 times. "We are not sure exactly what is going on."

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