Why it's awesome: When we think of pigs, we tend to picture round animals with cute snouts, but babirusas are very different. Male babirusas have large upper canine teeth, which grow downwards before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not every day a dentist asks a patient to open wide and finds a mouth full of tusks growing backward through the skin.

One of the world’s ugliest pigs has been given two fillings at London Zoo. Ubi the babirusa has been given two fillings, with his CT scan shared by vets following a successful visit to the dentist.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Separated from the mainland, the babirusa pigs of Sulawesi have evolved in total isolation. This has resulted in some pretty dramatic differences ...