A white European hare narrowly escaped an enormous avalanche in Russia as the rabbit ran right through it in a nail-biting moment that's resurfaced online. The video was shared to Reddit in the ...

New research explores the spillover of myxoma virus from European rabbits to Iberian hares. In addition to shedding new light on species-jumping viruses, the study shows that the protein permitting ...

THERE are no rabbits in Toowoomba... European hares, yes but not rabbits. The two are somewhat similar in appearance and often confused. The two are somewhat similar in appearance and often confused, ...

The Easter Bunny is one of the most familiar holiday icons. But, how did a rabbit become associated with Easter? How many species of rabbits are there on Earth? Are there are endangered rabbits? Is ...

After nine years of preparing these biweekly nature columns, I’ve decided that’s probably enough. I’d like to thank the publishers of the several newspapers who have had the kindness to run my essays ...

Collaborative research led by the University of East Anglia has identified one of the causes of recent deaths in UK European brown hare populations.Working together with diagnostic laboratories in ...

Wild bunnies in the Americas have the same long ears and fluffy tails as pet rabbits, but the two types of rabbits are not closely related. Although different species of rabbits and hares are ...

The process of rapid climate change operated cyclically throughout the Pleistocene and this caused repeated local extinctions, range changes and may have promoted vicariant speciation among temperate ...

Rabbit and hare hunters in northwestern Ontario have a little longer to hunt this spring despite recent changes. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has restored rabbit and hare hunting ...

The two are somewhat similar in appearance and often confused, but they are actually quite different. They both belong to the same family - Leporidae - but they are different species like sheep and ...