There are more than 100 types of rabbits and hares, both domestic and wild, from snowshoe hares to Flemish giants. Despite their extraordinary ability to reproduce, many wild rabbits are in danger ...

Few domesticated animals have flourished as well as rabbits have when reintroduced into the wild—a phenomenon that has often had economic and ecological consequences. And now a team of ...

First, they tried to pinpoint when domesticated rabbits diverged from their human-fearing wild counterparts using genetic data from both populations. Those results showed a divergence somewhere ...

A farmer has photographed wild rabbits riding on the backs of sheep to escape rising floodwaters during heavy rain in New Zealand. Ferg Horne, 64, said he had never seen anything like it and ...

As Californians suffer the devastation caused by wildfires that have burned through more than 100,000 acres, one man braved the flames to save a wild rabbit and instantly became the hero we didn ...

The world’s only wild black-furred rabbit has a very important job — distributing seeds for a parasitic plant. By Jason Bittel On the Amami Islands of Japan, wonder blooms from a nibble and ...

Despite this relatively short timeframe, domestic rabbits behave very differently to their wild counterparts – something Charles Darwin noted when he observed “no animal is more difficult to ...