For a few weeks every year, Christmas trees serve as the centerpiece of Yuletide decor in many homes. Then the ornaments and ...

Linda Then and her wife Sandy have a lot of mouths to feed. There’s the Jersey steer, the burly Clydesdale, the Nigerian dwarf goats, pot-bellied pigs, and eight ...

When was the first brown dwarf discovered? In 1995, Gliese 229Ba became the first brown dwarf discovered by astronomers, marking the recognition of this new class of stellar bodies. However ...

Most air passengers rarely think about what’s stored in the cargo hold below, but passengers on a recent KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight were in for a surprise when the stench from live pigs ...

A small amount of boar semen was applied to the skin of pigs to simulate evidence sometimes found at serious and complex crime scenes. Blowflies were attracted to the decomposing remains and lay ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

When pigs fly, it gets really smelly. A flight headed to Mexico went a little “hog wild” when the pilot decided to make an unplanned landing due to an “obnoxious smell” coming from the ...

Experts have long regarded pigs as one of the greatest zoonotic threats to public health because their cells allow viruses to mix and mutate, creating new strains capable of causing human pandemics.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, after eight years on dialysis ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. AP spoke with three people closely watching pig kidney development, including two who’ve asked about ...

BRITS have been left ‘haunted’ after they only just realise what pigs in blankets actually mean in the US. Pigs in blankets are a firm favourite of many foodies up and down the country ...