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50,000 years of island-hopping pigs reveal ancient human migration

Learn how pigs spread across Pacific islands, what their DNA reveals about ancient human journeys, and why their legacy still ...
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Veteran living in his car with dog and 250-pound potbellied pig gets fresh start

PORTLAND, Oregon — A Portland man is getting a fresh start after living for months in his car with his dog and a 250-pound potbellied pig. Navy veteran Tony James found himself in that predicament ...
Earth.com

Pigs hitched rides with humans across thousands of Pacific islands

Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...
The New York Times

Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. By Roni Caryn Rabin Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to ...
Science Daily

Guinea pigs: Promising animal model to study the human embryo

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development. CRCHUM researcher Sophie ...