Humans have been hunting and cooking wild rabbits for longer than we’ve been recording history. We loved eating rabbit meat so much that we domesticated the critters way back in 1000 BC. However, wild ...

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 researchers has ...

BOYLSTON – If you’ve seen wild rabbits hopping around your yard or neighborhood – lots of them – you’re not alone. The little critters with cute white tails, long ears and powerful hind legs appear to ...

Long Island is home to a thriving population of wild rabbits, often spotted in parks, backyards, and wooded areas. However, it’s important to recognize that these wild rabbits are vastly different ...

SPOKANE – An emergency effort to save endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits will get its first test next week when state and federal scientists release nearly two dozen of the animals back into ...

Question: There are usually 1-2 cottontail rabbits sharing our 4-acre habitat that are suffering due to the lack of new growth caused by drought. Is there anything I can plant after this summer that ...

Rabbits, a fixation of some hunters, are renowned as multiplication experts, a talent that might well come in handy. In September 2018, a domestic rabbit kept in Medina County died from a disease that ...

After sequencing the genomes of nearly 300 rabbits from Europe, South America, and Oceania, researchers found that all of them had a mix of feral and domestic DNA. They say this was not what they had ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – More detections of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2) in a wild rabbit have been confirmed by the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, including in a black-tailed ...