Security footage from a pigpen at a Western Connecticut farm shows a hungry black bear’s failed attempt to raid the pigpen.

Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are believed to have branched off from wild boars (Sus scrofa) through domestication events that occurred independently in East Asia and the Near East, beginning ...

For centuries, pigs have helped bind the Naxi people of China’s southwestern Yunnan province together. A cornerstone of local society and culture, the pigs — a breed known as “black pigs” — offer both ...