Hello,
I dont know if you have heard or read about this story yet but it was interesting.
The way it went was that this guy came across this giant feral hog that measured 12 feet long and weighed 1000 pounds. He shot and killed it and then buried it right away after the sheriff measured it but before anyone else could see it, although he did take a picture of it hanging next to him and it did look incredibly big and hairy.
Forensic experts examined the picture and couldnt be sure if it as a fake picture or not.
Eventually it caught the interest of some other scientists who wanted to figure out what kind of animal it was and hopefully its genetic background. The guy who shot it and buried it told them where it was and they finally went and dug it up. They found it was missing the head, so they had to find out where the head was and it was buried in a different place so they had to dig that up too. Then they were able to place the carcass and head together and measure the length. The length came out to only 8 feet, but that was still considered to be a giant in that species history. The weight was actually 800 pounds but still considered to be a giant i think the biggest on record.
The genealogy traced back to part domestic and part wild which was what they were guessing. That means that either a wild male escaped from a cage and mated with a domestic pig, or a domestic pig escaped and mated with a wild male and the result was that giant. They think there could be others in the wild that are very big too because it was alive for some 7 years so it could have easily mated with females and thus passed on its unusual genes. It also had large circular tusks which was very rare.
I am sure there should be some web info out there with a simple search.
Here is one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla
I dont know if you have heard or read about this story yet but it was interesting.
The way it went was that this guy came across this giant feral hog that measured 12 feet long and weighed 1000 pounds. He shot and killed it and then buried it right away after the sheriff measured it but before anyone else could see it, although he did take a picture of it hanging next to him and it did look incredibly big and hairy.
Forensic experts examined the picture and couldnt be sure if it as a fake picture or not.
Eventually it caught the interest of some other scientists who wanted to figure out what kind of animal it was and hopefully its genetic background. The guy who shot it and buried it told them where it was and they finally went and dug it up. They found it was missing the head, so they had to find out where the head was and it was buried in a different place so they had to dig that up too. Then they were able to place the carcass and head together and measure the length. The length came out to only 8 feet, but that was still considered to be a giant in that species history. The weight was actually 800 pounds but still considered to be a giant i think the biggest on record.
The genealogy traced back to part domestic and part wild which was what they were guessing. That means that either a wild male escaped from a cage and mated with a domestic pig, or a domestic pig escaped and mated with a wild male and the result was that giant. They think there could be others in the wild that are very big too because it was alive for some 7 years so it could have easily mated with females and thus passed on its unusual genes. It also had large circular tusks which was very rare.
I am sure there should be some web info out there with a simple search.
Here is one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla