In one of the most bizarre criticism deflections seen in recent memory, Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater has ...

Photos by Holly Allen From left, Cindy, Eeyore, and Marshmallow pose in their pasture with Green Acres Farm Animal Foundation ...

Dogs evolved from gray wolves, but scientists debate exactly where, when and how many times dogs were domesticated. Ancient DNA evidence suggests that domestication happened twice, in eastern and ...

Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States Xenotransplantation of pig hearts may help address the current human shortage of human donors once ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A pig has recently gone into the care of Huntsville Animal Services. Now, the organization is searching for its owner. The pig was found running loose in someone’s front yard ...

Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which pigs should be slaughtered, both before and in place of federal USDA ...

Ireland once had its own indigenous legal system, called Brehon law, originally written between the 7th and 8th centuries. These laws including governance of the ancient feast of Samhain or the old ...

It began as a desperate attempt to save one life, but ended up making medical history. Some Chinese surgeons have successfully transplanted a gene-edited pig liver into a living patient, a world-first ...

In a medical first, doctors have successfully transplanted a pig liver into a human patient, who subsequently lived for almost half a year. The 71-year-old man's own liver was irreversibly scarred by ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...