So you want to know more about how researchers brought a dead pig brain back to life outside its corpse. Today we're going to talk about this very subject, a pig-brain experiment the likes of ...

eating feces and garbage and the occasional human corpse. Interestingly, their traditional diet is probably why pigs are so damn smart: They can figure out how mirrors work and use them to search ...

My colleague Joseph Stromberg recently visited the Freeman Ranch body farm near San Marcos, Texas, where scientists study how bodies decompose on land. This knowledge turns out to be incredibly ...

What is Corpse Wax? Bury a body in most soil ... A few of the studies on adipocere looked at pig adipose tissue, and how that developed wax under the right conditions. Others threw caution ...

“[I]t is impossible that they completely destroyed a corpse with acid,” said study coauthor Massimo Grillo of the University of Palermo in Italy. Naysayers may suggest that the research is flawed ...

As kingpin Brick Top (Alan Ford) comments, “Beware of any man who keeps a pig farm.” According to Brick Top’s calculations, if you cut up a corpse into six pieces, 16 starved pigs can go ...