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 ...

For tens of thousands of years, Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits munched on olive-drab sagebrush, dug burrows in the deep volcanic soil and did what rabbits do best. But in recent decades, the animals ...

When humans domesticated wild rabbits and turned them into pet store favorites, they also changed their genome, a study has found. The change has been dramatic; while a pet rabbit will contentedly sit ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY —Kathy Meyer estimates she has taken as many as 3,600 wild rabbits into her Larkspur-area home over the past dozen years in hopes of rehabilitating them and returning them to the wild.

LITTLE reliable information is available on the breeding cycle of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in New Zealand, though there is a widely held popular belief, quoted by Marshall 1, that in ...

The genetic changes that transformed wild animals into domesticated forms have long been a mystery. An international team of scientists has now made a breakthrough by showing that many genes ...

A giant Continental rabbit on track to be the biggest in the world died in unexplained circumstances on a United Airlines flight from Britain to Chicago, according to media reports. The rabbit, whose ...