A Lemon Pig with a coin in its mouth is sure to bring you New Year's luck. At least since 2017 — when the new tradition went ...

Guinea pigs can make good pets, but though they may appear lower maintenance than a cat or a dog, they still require plenty of love and attention. If you get young guinea pigs, it’s easier to train ...

“WE don’t. YOU do. Real farm kids know better.” I sighed. “My mom says my room looks like a pig pen. Why are pigs so dirty?” “They’re not, doofus. Pigs are clean critters. They’re almost as clean as ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have ...

At some point this fall, I’m scheduled to produce a golden piglet. According to the Chinese zodiac, which is used across East Asia, this is a marvelous development. People born in 2007, the year of ...

Editor’s note: In the months since this article first published in the March/April issue of Popular Mechanics, there have been a series of ground-breaking updates in the field of organ transplantation ...

After years of niche acclaim—marred by her frustrating failure to ascend to the pop A-list— Peppa Pig is setting her sights ...

Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is completely normal, and she's off dialysis. The transplant recipient — Towana Looney, 53, of ...

Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland working for Game Rant, where she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games. Although she's not limited to a specific genre of ...