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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/fukushima-radioactive-boars-create-mutant-24439268
A decade after the Fukushima disaster, wild boars have been mating with domestic pigs in the nuclear wasteland and creating a new mutant species, DNA researchers have determined Radioactive wild boars have been breeding with Japan's domestic pigs to create a new hybrid species, researchers say.
Scientists investigating the effects of Fukushima's nuclear disaster in 2011 on the region's animals report that radiation has had no adverse effects on their genetics.
However, the area's wild boars bred with domestic pigs that escaped from nearby properties after farmers had to flee, creating a new hybrid species.

A decade after the Fukushima disaster, wild boars have been mating with domestic pigs in the nuclear wasteland and creating a new mutant species, DNA researchers have determined Radioactive wild boars have been breeding with Japan's domestic pigs to create a new hybrid species, researchers say.
Scientists investigating the effects of Fukushima's nuclear disaster in 2011 on the region's animals report that radiation has had no adverse effects on their genetics.
However, the area's wild boars bred with domestic pigs that escaped from nearby properties after farmers had to flee, creating a new hybrid species.
