Watch a GoPro camera fall out of a plane and land smack in a pigpen

Watch a GoPro camera fall out of a plane and land smack in a pigpen

Here’s a crazy story. A GoPro camera falls out of a plane, travels hundreds of feet to the ground, and lands in a pig pen. Eight months later, a random person finds said GoPro, footage intact. It’s worth watching.

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China Is Cloning Pigs on an ‘Industrial Scale’

China Is Cloning Pigs on an 'Industrial Scale'

A new report by the BBC reveals that China isn’t just experimenting with cloning—it’s doing it on an "industrial scale." Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a small cause for concern.

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Depressing claymation video reveals the horror of turning pigs to pork

You know how we all jokingly but sort of seriously say we don’t want to know how the wonderful tubular meat hot dog glue sausage is made? This claymation video of the life of a gestation crate pig completely ruins that because it reveals how awful pigs are treated before they’re turned into pork. It’s a video that’s somehow more powerful because it smartly uses clay to show you how terrible the whole process is instead of shocking you with bloody gorey imagery.

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These Pigs Glow-in-the-Dark to Save Lives

These Pigs Glow-in-the-Dark to Save Lives

Though they may not be the first set of glow-in-the-dark critters born for the sake of science, the newly bioluminescent pigs of the South China Agriculture University aren’t any less incredible—or for that matter, adorable. Wilbur, eat your heart out.

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Exploding Hog-Manure Foam Is Costing Farmers Millions

Exploding Hog-Manure Foam Is Costing Farmers Millions

Hog farmers across the country are dealing with a pretty shitty problem. A mysterious fecal foam has begun bubbling up from beneath barn floors, down in the darkness where pig manure falls, burping dangerous quantities of methane and hydrogen sulfide. Sometimes, though, it ignites, blowing up not just the barn but all of the pigs inside.

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This Trotter-Shaped Bench Looks Good Enough to Eat [Art]

There are few things more pleasant in life than having a nice comfortable sit down. Apart, perhaps, from pork. So why not combine the two? More »

Bad Piggies, the alternate-universe’s answer to Angry Birds, lands September 27th

Bad Piggies, the alternateuniverses answer to Angry Birds lands September 27th

Imagine a world where everyone’s evil and wears a goatee, while our avian allies from Angry Birds are actually the villains of the piece. That’s the premise behind Bad Piggies, Rovio’s newest productivity killer, which promises entirely new game mechanics (and no slingshots!). It’ll arrive on iOS, Android and OS X on September 27th, with Windows and Windows Phone 8 versions following shortly afterward.

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Pigs beware: Angry Birds Trilogy coming to 3DS, PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year

Pigs beware: Angry Birds Trilogy coming to 3DS, PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year

Despite already being a massive success story on the Android and iOS platforms, Rovio’s clearly not planning on slowing down its Angry Birds adventure any time soon. Speaking to IGN earlier today, the company’s Executive Vice President of Games, Petri Järvilehto, told the site that the Angry Birds Trilogy is headed — in physical form, no less — to the 3DS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this holiday season. Sadly, Järvilehto didn’t say how much we’ll have to spend on the bird-slinging trilogy, or when exactly it’ll be available at retail shops — though he did say you should “think of the game as the ultimate collector’s edition.” The Trilogy’s set to include the original Angry Birds title, Seasons and Rio, with the set expected to offer support for Kinect, Move and StreetPass on Nintendo’s three-dimensional handheld.

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