Wild boar roaming the forests around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant now carry domestic pig DNA, a genetic legacy of the chaos that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. When residents ...

That makes control a coordination problem as much as field work. Counties, private lands, and neighboring states often run ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...

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

Radioactive pig-boar hybrids are thriving in Fukushima after nuclear disaster – now scientists know why - Domestic pig genes ...

Study finds domestic pig maternal traits sped reproduction and reshaped wild boar genetics after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Chondrichthyan fishes—a group that includes rays, skates, chimaeras, and sharks—are thought to have energy intensive reproduction cycles due in no ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...