A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Domestic pigs escaped Fukushima farms after the 2011 disaster and hybridized with wild boar, creating a thriving population in the ...

It’s been just over a decade since a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused the meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Japan’s Fukushima region. The ensuing evacuation has allowed ...

Japanese scientists have finally decoded the genetic mechanisms behind the boom of radioactive pig-boar hybrids in Fukushima’s abandoned evacuation zone. Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident ...

In the evacuation zone in Fukushima, implemented after the nuclear accident in 2011, numerous animals have thrived in the absence of human activity. Even previously domesticated breeds have found a ...

Hong Kong boasts large tracts of subtropical mountains and parkland that host a thriving number of Eurasian wild pigs - Copyright AFP/File Anthony WALLACE Hong Kong ...