Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the ...

When animals hit the slopes, they often unintentionally create some close calls. We’ve seen plenty of examples of bears ...

Wild boar (Sus scrofa) reappeared in Flanders, Belgium in 2006 after more than half a century of absence. Besides being a native and highly valued game species in Europe, wild boar are also known to ...

Wild boar (Sus scrofa) is now an important species of wild ungulates in Central Europe. Next to conflicts of wild boar with agriculture, the main threat of wild boar presence lies in the expansion of ...

The fight continues against the invasive spread of wild boar in Alberta and its inherent disease risk and damage to the ...

Wild boars have become more common in urban areas in Spain, with a recent study warning over a dangerous parasite that the ...

The case of Rillette is the latest in a charged debate over the place of wild boar in Europe. Wild boars are native to Eurasia and North Africa, with the Central European Boar subspecies dominant ...

I recently learned the hunting designations for wild boars/ feral hogs, and my heart softened towards these critters ever so ...

Barcelona is one of a number of European communities which have large numbers of wild boar living nearby and they have become a common presence in the city itself. The singer Shakira, who lives in ...

Europe, too, had an elephant: the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) lived on our continent for around 700,000 years. The species survived multiple ice ages before becoming extinct ...