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 ...

With their adorable eyes, round form, and twitching noses, rabbits are synonymous with 'docile and easy-to-keep small animals.' However, in the history of evolutionary biology and domestication, they ...

With its long ears, large expressive eyes, and powerful hind legs, the European rabbit is one of the world's most recognizable small mammals. Native to southwestern Europe, this species has been ...

For more than a century, rabbits across the Iberian Peninsula were treated as a single species. However, new research suggests that assumption may have hidden a more urgent problem. One of those ...

Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny Netherland Dwarfs, floppy-eared French lops, Flemish Giants, and fluffy Angoras. These breeds belong to Europe's only rabbit species, ...

In 1859, Thomas Austin introduced European rabbits to Australia for sport, inadvertently unleashing an ecological disaster. From just two dozen, their population exploded to hundreds of millions by ...

Originally bred for meat and fur, the European rabbit has become a successful invader worldwide. When domesticated breeds return to the wild and feralize, the rabbits do not simply revert to their ...

In 2010, a new rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) variant, designated RHDV2, was identified for the first time in Italy. Studies have shown that RHDV2 differs from RHDV1 (tra ...

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.