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Pig–Boar Hybrids Are Evolving in Fukushima — and Rewriting What We Know About Hybridization

Learn how boar populations in Fukushima’s evacuation zone are evolving rapidly after mating with abandoned domesticated pigs.

Nuclear hog hybrids are breeding at breakneck speed in Japan

The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...