When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

In the ghost towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, a ...

Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations, but their rapid reproductive capacity persisted in hybrid hogs ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...

Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic ...

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an “unusually large hybridization event” unfolded between local wild boar and escaped domestic pigs. Within just a few years, the genetics of the two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild boars killed by a pellet gun is seen inside a booby trap at a residential area near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami ...

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 ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File image of a wild boar Wild boars that can grow to the size of a “small car” are now roaming within a mile of Inverness as ...