He loves to snuggle on the couch and be scratched,” said Brett Martin, who brings his pig to work every day at Good Samaritan ...

THE “EARTH PIG” The aardvark is one of a kind, devoid of close living relatives, the only surviving member of an entire order ...

He and his son Levi have just found two “squeakers”—pigs no more than a few months old—in one of their traps, which means US $100 in their pockets and another satisfied customer. Property owners all ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.

At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central Oregon. While the infection appears limited to one farm so far, the discovery has raised new alarm ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The infected pig was from a backyard farming operation ...

Swine are considered by health officials to be efficient influenza mixing bowls. The infected pig was not destined for commerical food production and federal officials say there is no concern ...

On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the virus had been detected in a pig for the first time at a farm in Oregon. Now, as the usual seasonal flu season approaches ...

Here’s a look at 12 stats and facts from Game 5. • That five-run comeback? It was the largest in a World Series-clinching win, surpassing 1925 Game 7, when the Pirates trailed by four. This was the ...

A nonprofit animal rights and medical ethics organization is suing the Defense Department for refusing to disclose details on its use of pigs and goats for medical training at four major military ...

CHICAGO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on ...