Pigs | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/pigs/RSS feed for PigsenThu, 19 Feb 2026 18:37:23 +0000This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast's True Naturehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-giant-carnivore-ran-on-hooves-scientists-are-investigating-its-massive-skull-and-crushing-teeth-to-decipher-the-beasts-true-nature-180988212/For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves”Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:37:23 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-giant-carnivore-ran-on-hooves-scientists-are-investigating-its-massive-skull-and-crushing-teeth-to-decipher-the-beasts-true-nature-180988212/U.S. Military Ends Practice of Shooting Live Animals to Train Medics to Treat Battlefield Woundshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-military-ends-practice-of-shooting-live-animals-to-train-medics-to-treat-battlefield-wounds-180987942/The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act bans the use of live animals in live-fire training exercises and prohibits "painful" research on domestic cats and dogsMon, 05 Jan 2026 17:00:18 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-military-ends-practice-of-shooting-live-animals-to-train-medics-to-treat-battlefield-wounds-180987942/Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Timehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-prevent-human-rejection-of-pig-organ-transplant-for-first-time-ever-180987693/A new study reversed transplant rejection twice, uncovering the reasons for transplant rejection on a cellular levelTue, 18 Nov 2025 17:10:12 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-prevent-human-rejection-of-pig-organ-transplant-for-first-time-ever-180987693/Pig Kidney Transplant Removed From Patient After a Record-Breaking 271 Dayshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pig-kidney-transplant-removed-from-patient-after-a-record-breaking-271-days-180987593/Tim Andrews was the fourth patient in the United States to receive a pig kidney transplant. He will now return to dialysis and wait for a kidney from a human donorWed, 29 Oct 2025 19:49:41 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pig-kidney-transplant-removed-from-patient-after-a-record-breaking-271-days-180987593/Wild Pigs Are Causing Big Problems in California's Bay Area, and Their Population Seems to Be Growinghttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wild-pigs-are-causing-big-problems-in-californias-bay-area-and-their-population-seems-to-be-growing-180986798/Land managers and other authorities are ramping up efforts to trap and kill the destructive, non-native animalsFri, 13 Jun 2025 18:10:44 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wild-pigs-are-causing-big-problems-in-californias-bay-area-and-their-population-seems-to-be-growing-180986798/The Future of Transplanting Pig Organs in Peoplehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-future-of-transplanting-pig-organs-in-people-180986182/After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remainFri, 07 Mar 2025 17:55:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-future-of-transplanting-pig-organs-in-people-180986182/FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneyshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kidney-transplants-180986018/Two biotechnology companies will begin testing the procedures in patients suffering from kidney failureThu, 06 Feb 2025 19:53:27 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/kidney-transplants-180986018/An Alabama Woman Got a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant. Three Weeks Later, She Has 'Never Felt Better'https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-alabama-woman-got-a-gene-edited-pig-kidney-transplant-three-weeks-later-she-has-never-felt-better-180985692/On November 25, 53-year-old Towana Looney became just the third living person to receive a pig kidney in an experimental procedureWed, 18 Dec 2024 19:27:02 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-alabama-woman-got-a-gene-edited-pig-kidney-transplant-three-weeks-later-she-has-never-felt-better-180985692/Archaeologists in Iceland Can't Agree Which Animal This Mysterious Viking-Era Toy Depictshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-iceland-cant-agree-which-animal-this-mysterious-viking-era-toy-depicts-180985009/The tenth-century stone figurine, alternatively identified as a pig, a bear or a dog, sheds light on the lives of long-ago Norse childrenTue, 03 Sep 2024 19:04:48 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-iceland-cant-agree-which-animal-this-mysterious-viking-era-toy-depicts-180985009/Second Patient Receives Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgeryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/second-patient-receives-gene-edited-pig-kidney-transplant-in-breakthrough-surgery-180984230/The woman, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano, also received a mechanical heart pump implant days earlier, making her the first person to undergo both proceduresFri, 26 Apr 2024 14:49:09 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/second-patient-receives-gene-edited-pig-kidney-transplant-in-breakthrough-surgery-180984230/