People have seen pigs as big as 661 pounds (300 kilograms) in the wild, according to the Guardian. Being so large has helped them to withstand frigid Canadian winters.

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If a wild pig or a wild boar ever escaped from a farm, there’s no way it would survive a western Canadian winter. It would just freeze to death,’” Brook tells the Guardian.

These pigs are a cross between wild boars and domestic pigs, and were bred in Canada in the 1980s to diversify agriculture. Some of the pigs, which can grow to over 660 pounds, were set free or ...

Super pigs may eventually cross the border into North and South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, according to the study, which was published May 9 in the journal Biological Invasions.

The wild Canadian pigs have a range of about 300,300 square miles according to a 2019 survey. The "super pigs" reportedly expand their territory by almost 34,000 square miles every year.

An invasive species of Canadian wild hogs is threatening to spread into the US. According to the AP, the pigs are exceptionally hard to eradicate. They're a crossbreed of American and Eurasian ...

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia (AP) – A Canadian pig farmer confessed to killing 49 women and was caught before he could reach his goal of making it an even 50, prosecutors told jurors at the start ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states li ...