The key appears to be maternal inheritance.

Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

The "super pig" population exploded after domesticated hogs interbred with feral wild boars in areas close to the nuclear fallout zone in northeast Japan ...

A Fukushima mutant pig study shows how escaped domestic pigs rapidly bred with wild boar after the 2011 nuclear disaster.

A fast-growing population of hybrid or mutant pigs is spreading through abandoned areas near ...

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...

March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It also marks the new growth of plant life and, as Muneo Kanno, a rice farmer of Fukushima, told me, “fushicho no gotoku” or ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...