Short snouts and a flat profile—within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

Researchers from MLU analyzed 3D scans of 135 pig skulls and found significant shape changes over just 100 years. Selective ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be wild boars that were hunted. At the dawn of the Iron Age, some 500 years ...

A sounder of wild boar appear to have been released at a site not far from where lynx were illegally dumped earlier this year ...

Police are unsure if a crime has been committed because the animals were livestock: "If it was a pit bull [dog] … then we would know the answer right away." ...

In other parts of Eurasia that straddled the east-west axis of the continent, crops or animals that had been domesticated in the Fertile Crescent managed to prosper. From the Fertile Crescent eastward ...

Editor's note: The Chinese zodiac, or "shengxiao," consists of 12 animal signs that mark the years. Each animal represents one year in a repeating 12-year cycle, which is calculated based on the ...

Pig farming at scale continues to be the trend with most pig farms averaging about 900 pigs, while farms with fewer than 200 ...