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Why it's awesome: When we think of pigs, we tend to picture round animals with cute snouts, but babirusas are very different. Male babirusas have large upper canine teeth, which grow downwards ...

More than a hundred graves with several mounds shaped like ships were discovered in a Viking Age cemetery in southwestern ...

NAD pigs are much more likely to experience abuse at slaughterhouses relating to handling and moving the animals. Abuses observed by the FSIS itself include pigs being electroshocked, prodded, kicked, ...

A PIG'S brain has been brought back to life, with functioning activity, nearly an hour after the animal had died. The eerie experiment aims to figure out how doctors can restore brain function to ...

Researchers at K-State investigate how to economically formulate swine diets while keeping pig efficiency and growth on track ...

If nothing else, animal cruelty is an effective cinematic device. When the documentary crew in Red Spell Spells Red arrives at their resort after opening the dwarf sorcerer’s tomb, their hosts insist ...

A Cornish animal shelter is struggling with vet fees after rescuing 55 guinea pigs from a pet hoarder. Maria's Animal Shelter in Probus said it removed 61 guinea pigs and rabbits from a small ...

European scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm capable of interpreting pig sounds, with the aim of creating a tool that can help farmers improve animal welfare.

While many farmers already have a good understanding of the well-being of their animals by watching them in the pig pen, existing tools mostly measure their physical condition, said Mandel-Briefer.

A trio of pigs on the loose in a seaside town have left residents both worried for the animals' safety and wary of unexpected wild encounters. The porcine interlopers have been foraging around ...