According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2019 is the Year of the Pig. Though our porcine friends are only the zodiac star once every 12 years, pigs have always been popular in children’s tales and games.

She was well known for her 20 slim volumes about an anthropomorphic pig family — for emergent readers, ages 4to 6 — that began in 1979 with “Tales of Oliver Pig” (illustrated by Arnold Lobel).

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2019 is the Year of the Pig. Though our porcine friends are only the zodiac star once every 12 years, pigs have always been popular in children’s tales and games.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile ...

The pig in the GEICO commercial is named Maxwell the Pig. Maxwell is an anthropomorphic pig and due to the fame — or infamy — of the original commercial, would later inspire a series of his ...

Like so many youngsters, Bennett’s six-year-old son had been wooed by the porky charms of Peppa Pig, the anthropomorphic ...