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CHANGSHA -- Two cloned piglets born in Central China's Hunan province are expected to promote China's pork industry and diabetes treatment research while preserving a 4,000-year-old local breed once ...

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production.

Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog breeds have detectable traces of wolf ancestry, remnants of ancient ...

I’m eating Dawn the Yorkshire pig and she’s quite tasty. But don’t worry. She’s doing perfectly fine, traipsing around a sanctuary in upstate New York. (Word is that she appreciates belly rubs and ...

Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them.

Tucked in the rolling countryside of Ugweri, about a 30-minute drive past Embu town on the way to Siakago, lies Coyote Farms, a bustling hub of innovation and resilience. Here, amid the scorching Embu ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the application of image segmentation and pattern recognition technology in pig breed identification, and proposes a new framework combining NAM-YOLO algorithm and case ...