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🦖👾 Ever wondered if animals could really turn into monsters after a nuclear war or is that just something from science fiction movies? Let’s explore this fascinating concept and see what science has to say about it!
Is the Transformation of Animals into Monsters Possible?
1. Mutation:
– One possibility is that animals could undergo genetic mutations due to exposure to radiation.
– These mutations could potentially lead to physical changes that make them seem monstrous.
2. Extreme Environmental Changes:
– The aftermath of a nuclear war could cause significant environmental changes, leading to the evolution of creatures that are adapted to survive in these harsh conditions.
– These adaptations could make them appear monstrous compared to their pre-war counterparts.
Real-Life Examples of Post-Nuclear War Evolution
🌿🦠 While we haven’t seen animals transforming into monsters in real life after a nuclear event, there are examples of environmental changes and genetic mutations following such disasters.
1. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone:
– Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the area has seen an increase in mutated plants and animals.
– These mutations are a result of the high levels of radiation in the region.
2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
– Studies conducted in the aftermath of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed genetic mutations in survivors and their offspring.
– While not turning into monsters, these mutations showcase the potential impact of radiation on living organisms.
Conclusion: A Sci-Fi Trope or Possible Reality?
🚀🔬 While the idea of animals evolving into monsters after a nuclear war is often portrayed in science fiction, there is a basis in scientific theory for such transformation to occur. Genetic mutations and extreme environmental changes could lead to the evolution of creatures that may appear monstrous compared to their pre-war counterparts. As we continue to study the effects of radiation on living organisms, only time will tell if this sci-fi trope could become a reality.
Look at Chernobyl. The ecosystem is adapting. I just need a third arm, lol
Look at Chernobyl. The ecosystem is adapting. I just need a third arm, lol
If you’re talking about Fallout, >!those monsters were revealed to be artificially created.!<
In a radioactive sense it’s a trope. When radiation does that it’s called cancer and it kills the animal by physically breaking things. It can accelerate random mutation, but evolution requires incremental change over a lot of generations. Freak mutation in offspring usually creates a sterile standalone without breeding partners.
Separately, serious nuclear weapons don’t cause a ton of lingering radiation. Hiroshima has normal radiation levels now. Dirty bombs that spread partially spent waste are what do that and the arsenals that would be used are mostly thermo nuclear two stage fusion bombs. They incinerate and flatten things and hit them with a burst of rads. The radiation fades in a few years.
Probably wouldn’t be any animals to evolve in the FIRST PLACE…
I picture giant cockroaches the size of VW buses
You can’t evolve if you’re dead
Not due to the nuclear war.
However, the mass death *might* lead to it. If predators are forced to take more risks and attack more dangerous prey due to the death of weaker animals, it’s credible there could be a selection pressure for more physically powerful animals.
You won’t get deathclaws, but you might get smilodons.
Well “we” all did after Hiroshima.
Real nuclear war is far more depressing than the fantasies played out in most post apocalyptic sci-fi.
Watch the old American mini-series “The Day After”, or the British take “Threads”.
It’s a sci-fi trope. We already have plenty of data points to know what happens long term to radiation exposure, and none of them are rampant non-deleterious mutations.
If there are enough feral dogs near you they’re basically monsters already
Some of the animals we have now could be classified as monsters
Radiation kinda just messes you up, doesn’t really give you powers
I mean, the wolves in chernobyl have altered immune systems that are apparently resistant to radiation, and they’ve seen mutated DNA. Small things.
But I see no reason why a larger mutation couldn’t technically be possible, after a number of years, granted I’m not a scientist.
Apparently The Chernobyl Wolves (name of my next band) have evolved to have an immunity to cancer. So there’s that.
https://news.sky.com/story/chernobyls-mutant-wolves-appear-to-have-developed-resistance-to-cancer-study-finds-13067292
Animals won’t turn into Mo steps after a nuclear war.
But genetic engineering labs full of man- made monsters wouldn’t have very tight security anymore….
Isaac Asimov addressed this several decades ago. He said that the possibility of radiation creating these dramatic sci-fi effects is about as likely as fixing a broken watch by repeatedly throwing it down at a cement floor. He was a Ph.D. biochemist, as well as a science fiction writer.
The animals around chernobyl have developed a slightly higher resistance to cancer, but many still die due to mutation shortly after birth.
Some animals have a naturally high resistance to cancer, so they may actually do some more “interesting” mutations. But the typical flesh eating monster with patchy fur and too many limbs is pretty much just a trope.
They’d probably just die like everything else.
Some form of mutation would occur. For example in Chernobyl one frog species start to develop much darker skin. Probably because melanin protects against radiation. So yeah things happen, but probably nothing monster like.
Some form of mutation would occur. For example in Chernobyl one frog species start to develop much darker skin. Probably because melanin protects against radiation. So yeah things happen, but probably nothing monster like.
Some form of mutation would occur. For example in Chernobyl one frog species start to develop much darker skin. Probably because melanin protects against radiation. So yeah things happen, but probably nothing monster like.
Well yes but actually no. In the ares with heavy radiation animals would just die. But theres the parts of the world that arent heavily radiated and as far as i know small doses of radiation cause small amounts of mutation. So A nuclear war would lead to faster evolution in the areas where the level of radiation is relatively small.
By the rules of survival of the fittest one could argue that those fast evolving animal could become more “monstrous”, since the living conditions would get harsher.
But in the end remember that the harshest conditons on earth right now are in antarctica and that where penguins live.
Most mutations suck, and 99% mean you aren’t going to make it.
The people and animals around Chernobyl are still waiting for their monster mutations. All they got so far are tons of health problems
How are we defining “monster”? Maybe some animals are already monsters.
But they’re not going to evolve significantly within a few generations, and the mutations they get will almost always be harmful. A mutant wolf would be less dangerous than a regular wolf, not more dangerous.
Give it another couple of years and there is a chance we’ll find out.
https://youtu.be/fdJdgbrVzgA?t=180 (cued)
It *could* happen, because the radiation *will* promote a greater amount of mutations, but the vast majority of them will simply be undesirable ones that reduce, rather than increase, dominance in survival and reproduction.
It would be lottery winning odds for a mutation that really improves the animal in some way.
“monster” is by definition a science fiction or fantasy term.
but without humans, it is likely more megafauna would evolve. there used to be a lot more big animals before humans hunt them all to Extinction.
Sci-fi trope. The only thing that would evolve into monsters would be the cancers all that radiation is causing.
Yeah, radiation mostly just gives you cancer instead of three arms and superpowers.
If you look at Chernobyl, most of the significantly-mutated animals just die soon after birth/hatching due to their inability to survive. But arguably plenty of real animals could qualify as “monsters” to humans. In the aftermath of a nuclear war, tigers, lions, and the like could certainly establish wild populations in foreign environments and wild animals in general would gradually rebound and lose their fear of humans, and all could end up terrorizing survivors.
It’s a scifi trope. You can look at Chernobyl for a small-scale example.
Sci-fi, animals (along with most living things) would just die
It’s a sci-fi trope.