March 1, 2026 is National Pig Day, celebrating an animal that more often than not brings to mind filth, cartoons, and maybe a few bacon jokes. But the reality of our relationship to pigs is far more ...
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Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...
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Pig–boar hybrids are evolving in Fukushima — and rewriting what we know about hybridization
Learn how boar populations in Fukushima’s evacuation zone are evolving rapidly after mating with abandoned domesticated pigs.
Japanese scientists have finally decoded the genetic mechanisms behind the boom of radioactive pig-boar hybrids in Fukushima’s abandoned evacuation zone. Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident ...
This week, researchers reported on a juvenile great white shark caught by fishermen in Spanish Mediterranean waters. China's ...
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