“While most wild boars are naturally aggressive, some are more friendly and less afraid of people, which are the ones that may live alongside humans,” Jiajing Wang, a study co-author and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Today’s pigs in China have a pedigree dating back at least 8,000 years ...

Pigs, also called swine or hogs, will famously eat anything. They’re hyper-intelligent for livestock, and spend their lives focused on one thing: food. Domestic pigs are even-toed, omnivorous, ...

When the market collapsed, the "super pigs" escaped and began to spread rapidly across the country. The pigs may be invading the US, where feral pigs already pose environmental problems in the South.

MINNEAPOLIS -- An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has infected over 28.9 million people and caused the death of more than 922,000 ...

Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typically mice and rats. But, as much as they've done for biomedical ...