New Wild Pig Species Reported in Brazil

November 6, 2007 By MICHAEL ASTOR, Associated Press Writer Scientist Claims to Find New Pig Species (AP)

Hunters transport a wild pig claimed to be a new species along the Arauazinho river in the Brazilian Amazon on Sept. 2003. Dutch scientist Marc van Roosmalen claims to have discovered a new species of wild pig measuring over four feet, 1.2 meters, nearly twice the size of a similar beasts roaming the same remote corner of the Amazon. (AP Photo/Frieder Salm)

(AP) -- A Dutch scientist thinks he has discovered a new species of wild pig nearly twice the size of other pigs in Brazil's Amazon region.

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