Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.

In the Near East, an area not exactly known for its expansive forests (the pig's ancestors were used to roaming among trees digging up tubers and hoovering up acorns), early domesticated swine ...

Whether you love farmyard piglets, cartoon pigs, or decorative porkers (like piggy banks), go hog-wild reading up on these smart swine.

Using data from publicly available databases, they compared 240 genes in pigs and 206 in chickens and found 10 were up-regulated—meaning they were expressed more compared to their wild ancestor ...

Professor Lawrence Schook, of the University of Illinois, said: "The new analysis has important implications for agriculture, particularly since the domestic pig still has an ancestor-like wild ...

Pig ancestors, 5,000 years ago: Study reveals Indus Valley-era farmers domesticated wild boars Scientists have found evidence of independent pig domestication in the Gangetic plains from around 5,000 ...

Peru enjoys eating Guinea pigs so much they developed a breed of the rodent that reaches prime weight almost three times faster.

In 1968, distinguished anthropologist Roy Rappaport wrote a seminal publication of human ecology: “Pigs for the Ancestors: Rituals in the Ecology of a New Guinea People” which integrated ...

This 45,500-year-old pig painting is the world’s oldest animal art The depiction of a warty pig adds to the mounting number of cave art finds throughout Indonesia.

Thanks to science, we may now have a good idea of when our ancestors first started pleasuring themselves — and it could help answer why they would develop such a practice when, on its face, it ...

Babirusas are believed to have diverged from their pig ancestors between 26 million and 12 million years ago after getting isolated on Sulawesi when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.