A male babirusa's canines are an evolutionary mystery: They never stop growing, they're too fragile to hunt or forage with, and, given time, they end up twisting and penetrating the animal's own skull ...

Camera traps have snapped the babirusa “deer-pig,” a type of tusked wild swine, on an island in Indonesia where they hadn’t been observed in more than a quarter of a century. Locals on Buru Island had ...

What it eats: Leaves, fruit, mushrooms, tree bark, insects, fish and small mammals Why it's awesome: When we think of pigs, we tend to picture round animals with cute snouts, but babirusas are very ...