Jackson County deputies arrested three people after a young boy's therapy pig, Bootsy, was shot and killed after getting loose. The 400-pound pig helped 12-year-old Garrett Cox manage ADHD, and the ...

Teacup. Pixie. Itty-bitty. Micro. Pocket-size. When Jessica Moul went scrolling through Craigslist for a new family pet, she knew she wanted an itty-bitty pig.

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While research on human-pig chimeras is on an indefinite pause, xenotransplantation is moving ahead. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, ...

ALTSTÄTTEN, Switzerland and BOSTON, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- icotec, the pioneer of implantable devices made from BlackArmor ® Engineered Carbon/PEEK, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Swarms of wild pigs in California developed blue flesh after ingesting pesticides containing rat poison — and officials warned other common game animals may also be infected. The feral hogs in ...

PIC's gene-edited pigs are highly resistant to one of the most harmful viruses affecting pig populations worldwide today. Reading time 3 minutes Who’s up for some CRISPR-y bacon? This week, the Food ...

Pigs whose DNA makes them resistant to a virus could be the first big consumer product using gene editing. Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty ...

Haitian farmers bring their Creole pigs for evaluation and extermination in a field in Haiti, in 1982. The WLRN film The Creole Pig tells the forgotten story of the Creole pig in Haiti and why it ...