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 ...

As if the world wasn’t plague-stricken enough, a deadly new virus that’s more contagious than the coronavirus is sweeping across the US, killing thousands of both domestic and wild rabbits in ...

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 ...

Feral DNA may help domestic rabbits thrive in the wild, a new analysis suggests, shedding new light on the evolution of an animal that can cause major environmental destruction. Publishing in ...

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 ...

From behind, some wild rabbits can be easily picked out by the glowing white patches of fur on their tails. While it might look like a painted-on target that cries, "Eat Me," once the chase is on ...

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 ...

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 ...