piglets

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Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

They introduced these virus suspensions drop-by-drop into each nostril of the piglets and monitored them for 5 days to see whether they displayed any symptoms, including changes in body temperature.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

"It's a pig house, so you have breeding sows in that house and piglets," he added.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2024

The boys shouted and rushed forward, the piglets scattered and the sow burst the advancing line and went crashing away through the forest.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding