A CSIC team and universities in Spain, Portugal and the UK say the European rabbit is in fact two species split 2 million ...

How two dozen rabbits released in 1859 triggered one of history's fastest mammal invasions — and the biology behind Australia ...

A new study has traced the northward expansion of North American beavers into Canada's Arctic by analysing shrub growth scars ...

Rabbits were raised for over a thousand years in Mexico without becoming domesticated. A new study finds that their solitary lifestyle and greater species diversity made domestication unlikely.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A breeding program at the Bronx Zoo allowed scientists to release 15 young cottontail rabbits, the only rabbit species native to ...

European wild rabbits are a 'keystone species' that hold together entire ecosystems—according to researchers at the University of East Anglia. Their grazing and digging activity keeps the ground in a ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The hardships facing the pygmy rabbit of the western United States don't warrant protections under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on ...