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Geneticists who sampled 243 boars and pigs around the Fukushima nuclear plant confirmed escaped farm pigs had bred into the wild boar herd, but the pig ancestry is erasing itself — hybrid sows inherit year-round breeding from domestic mothers, and faster generations dilute the pig genes faster
A decade after Fukushima's evacuation, escaped farm pigs bred with wild boars—but nature is erasing the domestic legacy faster than anyone predicted.
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