Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations, but their rapid reproductive capacity persisted in hybrid hogs ...

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...

Learn how boar populations in Fukushima’s evacuation zone are evolving rapidly after mating with abandoned domesticated pigs.

Scientists have just uncovered why populations of radioactive pig-boar hybrids have been flourishing in Fukushima. Since the ...

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

In the ghost towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, a ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

This week, researchers reported on a juvenile great white shark caught by fishermen in Spanish Mediterranean waters. China's ...

Sakae Kato feeds wild boars in front of his home, in a restricted zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Wild pig-boar hybrids have started roaming around Fukushima since ...