Why it's awesome: When we think of pigs, we tend to picture round animals with cute snouts, but babirusas are very different. Male babirusas have large upper canine teeth, which grow downwards before ...

Known as 'terminator pigs or ‘hell pigs’ entelodonts are just as terrifying as their nicknames suggest, says Will Newton. The entelodonts were a family of hoofed, pig-like mammals that ranged across ...

Prehistoric pigs looked quite different from modern-day pigs. These ancient omnivores sportedlong tusks and head protuberances. Kubanochoerus is an extinct genus of long-legged pigs that lived during ...