A tiny genetic tweak can make pigs completely resistant to classical swine fever, a major problem for farmers around the world. The same gene edit should also make cattle and sheep resistant to ...

This little piggy has gone to the dogs. An adorable “service pig” has been welcomed into a popular Brooklyn dog park with open paws, even running off-leash with petite pooches — despite a city ban on ...

A Russian drone strike on a farm in northeast Ukraine overnight into Friday sparked a fire that killed some 13,000 pigs, emergency service officials said. Ukraine's state emergency service said the ...

First things first: the guinea pig is not a pig and it’s not from Guinea. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s talk about what these charming rodents, also called cavies, actually are. Their ...

Better Piggies Rescue, located in Phoenix, provides sanctuary for 200 pigs, three cows, and two cats. Danielle Betterman, the founder, aims to dispel negative stereotypes about pigs and educate the ...

Feral hogs with "slushie-blue" innards turned up in Monterey earlier this year—and not for the first time. A young wild boar stands at Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County, California.

Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo has been covering campaigns and every aspect of federal policy since 2006. In addition to his reporting for Raw Story, Matt has been a contributor at WIRED, VICE News ...

The son of a career army officer, Bennett led a nomadic life, attending ten different schools before graduating in 1980 from the University of North Alabama with degrees in Art and History. After ...

Wild pigs in Monterey County were recently found to have blue-colored muscle and fat, a sign that they may have ingested toxic rodenticide bait, according to the California Department of Fish and ...

California wildlife officials are urging hunters and trappers to remain vigilant after several wild pigs in Monterey County were discovered with unnaturally blue flesh, an indication that the animals ...

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. “I’m not talking ...