Guinea pigs may be exciting in the movies, but for Shannon Cauthen, the pleasure they give in real life is just the opposite. “They’re very soothing,” says Cauthen, who runs the Cavy Care guinea pig ...

Who doesn’t love a good old afternoon nap? Well, we can think of one adorable little pig that absolutely loves a good mid-afternoon nap. His name is Wimpy. And he is obscenely adorable! We have heard ...

Huge herds of hairy, pig-like animals called peccaries suddenly vanish and don’t come back for years – and it seems to be because their populations are growing so large that they wipe themselves out.

Archaeotherium, or North American "hell pigs," had different feeding strategies depending on their size, according to ...

Switzerland takes animal companionship seriously, and guinea pigs ended up at the center of one of the country’s unexpectedly ...

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a brand new creature preserved in 30-million-year-old amber. The tiny invertebrate, casually dubbed the “mold pig,” is not only a new species but ...

Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live underwater. And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of the aquatic ...

A hungry javelina in Arizona ended up going for a drive when it became trapped inside an empty car and bumped it into neutral. Deputies in Yavapai County responded to a call last week in Cornville, a ...

In mid-1946, the United States conducted a pair of nuclear weapon tests at a remote Pacific atoll, during which numerous animals were deliberately exposed to the blasts to assess the effects of ...

Some 45,500 years ago, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient humans ventured into a cave and sketched out the rotund form of a native pig, complete with a bristly back and face warts.

CORNVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — A hungry javelina in Arizona ended up going for a drive when it became trapped inside an empty car and bumped it into neutral. Deputies in Yavapai County responded to a call ...