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Pigs

This colored wood engraving shows the pig-faced Miss Atkinson.

Regency Londoners Were Obsessed With Pig-Faced Ladies

In 1815, the obsession with swine-ish, upper-class ladies reached a fever pitch.

Sarah Crocker August 6, 2024

A Juvenile Sulawesi Warty Pig, Sus celebensis in Buton Island, Sulawesi Indonesia. These pigs live in the forest but frequently come into local people's farms and steal crops.

Sulawesi Warty Pigs May Have Been Our Earliest Muses

More than 45,000 years ago, these porky foragers inspired the earliest known non-abstract art.

Christina Ayele Djossa April 12, 2024

Oxford, England

Majapahit Piggy Bank

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

Porky Pig Memorial

A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.

Some 60 years ago, an ancient Olmec sculpture known as the "Earth Monster" was stolen. Last week, it went home to Mexico.

Wonder Is Everywhere: Buying a Ghost Town, Finding the Earth Monster, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White May 26, 2023

Podcast: Big Apple Inn

A humble hole-in-the-wall with a serious civil rights history.

The Podcast Team March 6, 2023

An Ossabaw hog in captivity in Savannah.

Saving the Hogs of Ossabaw Island

An eccentric heiress, a daring mission, and the fight for North America’s most unusual pig.

Diana Hubbell January 10, 2023

preserved specimens

Podcast: World’s Oldest Edible Ham

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team June 9, 2022

Podcast: The Livestock Living at the End of the World

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team May 26, 2022

Porky The Litter Eater

Bethesda, Maryland

Porky The Litter Eater

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

Pantaneiros are rare, but perfectly adapted to the swampy Pantanal wetlands of South America.

Inside the World of Obscure Livestock

Around the world, people are preserving barnyard standouts.

Alex Mayyasi June 22, 2021

Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia

Mangulica & Pulin Statue

Statues of two of Srem's most well-known animals.

Mass animal die-offs, simulated here in an Oklahoma hog body farm, can negatively impact the surrounding ecosystem.

Scientists Are Simulating Mass Animal Die-Offs in an Oklahoma Prairie

Understanding the ecological impact of hundreds of dead feral hogs.

Sabrina Imbler January 22, 2020

A reconstruction of the Iron Age roundhouse at Ulster, where archaeological evidence suggests massive feasts were held.

The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a ‘Mammoth’ Iron Age Building

The guests brought swine from far and wide, and left dozens of carcasses behind.

Isaac Schultz December 27, 2019

The Porcineograph: A pig-shaped map of the United States.

Why an 1875 Map Imagined the U.S as a Giant Hog

New York is the nose, Alaska the tail, and Cuba is a giant sausage.

Reina Gattuso October 28, 2019

Your friendly, likely apocryphal, sewer swine.

Londoners Once Wondered If Feral Hogs Roamed Victorian-Era Sewers

Lots of legends seem to start underground.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 3, 2019

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philbert the Pig

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

<em>Lobelia kauaiensis</em>, one of the species of lobelia native to Kanaele, alongside a friend.

One of Hawaiʻi's Rarest Bogs Just Got an 11-Year Makeover

Step 1: Evict all the pigs.

Sabrina Imbler July 26, 2019