Farmer Zhang Qiang considers his pigs not just livestock, but national treasures. He is among a handful of Chinese breeders who still specialize in native species - in his case, Wulian black pigs.

It has been just less than 40 years since an incredibly smart, overtly affectionate and adorable domestic pig, then not known to most Americans, was almost extinct. The Māori, the indigenous ...

WASHINGTON, Maine — A push is on to save one of the rarest domestic pig breeds in the country, and a Maine farmer is helping lead the charge by convincing consumers to eat them. The American mulefoot ...

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.

GUWAHATI: In Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), where pork is a delicacy, the government is aiming at self-sufficiency with the British breed of domestic pigs called Large White Yorkshire (LWY ...

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 - ...

Southern Italy has a long history of human occupation and passage of different cultures since the Early Holocene. Repeated, ancient introductions of pigs in several geographic areas in Europe make it ...

WASHINGTON, Maine (AP) — A push is on to save one of the rarest domestic pig breeds in the country, and a Maine farmer is helping lead the charge by convincing consumers to eat them. The American ...