piglets

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Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

In a new study, published in Virology, a multidisciplinary team of researchers have studied newborn piglets to better understand the progression of influenza infections.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

"It's a pig house, so you have breeding sows in that house and piglets," he added.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024

She got to her feet to fight better and remembered that old-fashioned women gave birth in their pigsties to fool the jealous, pain-dealing gods, who do not snatch piglets.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston