Last year, several environmental groups took on an enormous conservation project in the Annamite Mountains, a dense range in ...

Cross-sections of the tibia (shin bone) of the Amami rabbit (left) and the Japanese hare (right), showing multiple growth arrest lines (red) in the Amami rabbit. The presence of many such lines—even ...

Rabbit or hare? These mammals are both in the order Lagomorpha, but they have very different characteristics. What separates them? And what rabbit isn’t a rabbit at all? Science Trek is available to ...

With millions of feral rabbits currently hopping around the continent, you might wonder if the viruses that kept their numbers down in the past still work.

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The Chinese Year of the Rabbit, 2023, arrived in January. I do not propose a cause-and-effect connection or believe that conspiracy is in play, but we have seen more rabbits in our backyard this year ...

Small enough to fit in your hand, pygmy rabbits are the world’s smallest rabbit. They’re also the only North American rabbits who dig their own burrows. They need continuous expanses of sagebrush for ...

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