Stock image of a wild boar with its large tusks on display. A New Zealand man was attacked by a large wild pig at his home, and had a dislocated shoulder and was knocked unconscious. iStock ...

THIS is the horrifying moment a wild boar viciously attacked an old-age pensioner in the front yard of his home before pinning him down to the ground. The old man, 70, sustained severe spine injuri… ...

A woman in her 50s has been gored by a boar tusk with paramedics rushing to her aid in the early hours of the morning.

Dramatic footage shows the boar smashing items inside the store while terrified customers try to dodge its deadly tusks in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on October 25, around 9 am.

In my decades of outdoor experience, no wild animal charge has threatened my life like my encounters with rampaging wild hogs ...

Wild boars, warty pigs, and warthogs belong to the pig family. Domesticated pigs have been the common species called pigs, but these domestic pigs came from wild boars, thus their similarities.

Male wild boars grow tusks from both their upper and lower jaws. The upper tusks are hollow and are used as a tool to keep the lower tusks very sharp.

Boar tusks are phenomenally sharp, with 60-70% of a canine enclosed in the mandible and typically 1”-3” outside the socket, with a frequent diameter of ¾” at the widest point.

FUKUCHI, Fukuoka Prefecture—On a morning when the thermometer registered a chilly 6 degrees, wild boar hunter Yasohachi Hirano's breath made a misty cloud in the air.

But its appearance leans toward a wild boar. Its long, sloping snout, the hairy ridgeback, shoulder structure and tusks leaves little doubt in most minds, even if the officials cannot say for sure.

THIS is the horrifying moment a wild boar viciously attacked an old-age pensioner in the front yard of his home before pinning him down to the ground. The old man, 70, sustained severe spine injuri… ...