As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their environment. New England scientists are looking at some promising ways to help.

These huge hind feet make it easy to tell snowshoe hare from rabbit tracks. Hares and rabbits are in the same family, the Leporidae, but have a few key differences.

For the snowshoe hare and the cottontail, this is not just imagination—it’s reality. These fascinating creatures illustrate how the environment can shape evolution in unexpected and remarkable ...

The snowshoe hare requires 300g (10.6 oz) of browse per day, and uses the two pairs of upper incisors to cleanly sever the twigs, buds, and bark of woody vegetation during the winter. It prefers small ...

Those who rabbit hunt with beagle hounds often look forward to a chance to hunt the snowshoe hare. Snowshoes are known to run huge routes when pursued by beagles, sometimes for miles.

They snowshoe hare’s range overlaps with that of the eastern and Appalachian cottontail rabbits. Although they are different species, it’s difficult to tell their droppings apart.

The Americas: Snowshoe hares stay on their toes in "The Frozen North". In the Yukon forests where the snowshoe hare dwells, ...

LONG POND – It was the coldest day of winter in 2018, but it was also the opening day of the five-day Pennsylvania snowshoe hare season. So even the single digits and wind chill could not dis… ...

The snowshoe hare is one of approximately 20 animals in the world that turn white in the winter, and it’s one that faces some serious concerns here in the Keystone State due to climate change ...

This is the spot—deep in the north woods of Maine, early in March, for four days of the craziest rabbit hunting on the planet. I’ve chased cottontails through swamps and garish cutovers back ...

Snowshoe hares like to nibble on the protein-rich buds of young hardwoods, but especially spruce and fir. These 10- 15-year-old saplings have low, dense boughs that help the hares hide from predators.