Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that “radioactive hybrid terror pigs” were thriving in Japan’s Fukushima exclusion zone.
The image of feral swine exposed to 300 times the safe human dose of cesium-137 after the 2011 nuclear meltdown, interbreeding with wild boar and roaming a post-apocalyptic hellscape, proved unusually popular with readers. It even spawned fan art. I suppose we were all extremely bored.
As the old saying goes, never let the truth get in the way of a good headline. However, new research into the Fukushima fiefdom suggests the reality is less mutant horror hog and more brisk genetics.
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What hasn’t faded is Mom’s influence.
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