In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production.

Domestic pigs have a lot more “wild” in them than originally thought — at least from a genetic standpoint. By studying the genes of pigs and wild boars, researchers have discovered that domestic pigs ...

Pigs were domesticated from wild boars about 9,000 years ago. Researchers have long assumed that this process involved permanently isolating a few animals from the wild. But according to new findings ...

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Danish Committee of Pig Breeding and Production (DCPBP) jointly announce the public release of pig genomic sequences.

The two pigs on the left are the German refined Landschwein and the German Edelschwein. On the right is an animal that looks very similar to an original domestic pig. Short snouts and a flat profile - ...