Swine Scene Investigators Dig Up Truth on Hogzilla

Scientists exhumed the corpse of Hogzilla and performed a battery of tests on it during a National Geographic TV special shown last Sunday in hopes of establishing once and for all whether the alleged 12-foot-long, 1,000-pound wild porker was "real." The verdict: Hogzilla really existed and he was a big 'un, all right — just not quite as big as the hunter who shot him in a Georgia swamp last year claimed. By the researchers' estimates, Hogzilla measured 8 feet long at best and probably weighed no more than 800 pounds. Still, he was "an impressive beast," National Geographic producer Nancy Donnelly admitted in a story by the Associated Press. "He was definitely a freak of nature."  Full story...