Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans.

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations, but their rapid reproductive capacity persisted in hybrid hogs ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wild boar can be seen freeing two piglets from a trap in images captured by researchers. The female boar can be seen ...

On December 1, 2025, the government introduced 3 changes to wild boar management to protect the livestock industry, the environment, and animal and human health.

Feral pigs have roamed the woods of the U.S. for centuries and are a major feature in the U.S. countryside, with one Twitter user famously going viral in 2020 complaining about the "30-50 feral hogs" ...

BERLIN (AP) - Forget the three little pigs hiding from the big bad wolf. These six little pigs have found a new friend in a maternal French bulldog named Baby. The Lehnitz animal sanctuary outside ...