Pig domestication began around 9000 YBP in the Fertile Crescent and Far East, involving marked morphological and genetic changes that occurred in a relatively short window of time. Identifying the ...

Wild pigs cause around $2.5 billion in damage to US crops every year, mostly in southern states like Texas. AP Their aerial surveys have spotted them on both sides of the Canada-North Dakota border.

The US population of wild pigs is soaring due to what experts are calling “a feral swine bomb,” according to a report. There are about 9 million feral hogs in the nation currently, and the ...

Ruiqiang Li and colleagues report the whole-genome sequencing of a Tibetan female wild boar, as well as resequencing of 48 domestic pigs and wild boar from Tibet and China. Their analysis provides ...

Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, mostly in southern states like Texas. But the exploding population of feral swine on the prairies of western Canada ...

The province is now placing a moratorium on new wild boar farms, which means no new wild pig farms are able to operate. Farms had until Jan. 1 to apply for a licence at no cost. Ryan Brook, a ...

I t seemed like a good idea at the time. When Canadian pig farmers were told in the 1980s that their animals’ gene pool was thin, they turned to wild boars from Britain for fortification ...