Experts prove Hogzilla really was super swine

A TEAM of National Geographic experts has confirmed that south Georgia's monster pig, known to locals as Hogzilla, was indeed real and really, really big.

But they conceded that the super swine didn't quite live up to the 71-stone 12ft hype generated when Hogzilla was caught on a farm in Alapaha last summer and photographed hanging from a backhoe.

Donning biohazard suits to exhume the behemoth's smelly remains, the experts estimated Hogzilla was probably only seven and a half to 8ft long, and weighed about 57st.