But where does the risk lie, and what can owners do to protect their pets? Myxomatosis, also known as rabbit plague, is a ...

A minor league team had a rabbit throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The rabbit is named Alex the Great. He had some help from a pitching machine. Alex has ...

Did you know Australia has a rabbit problem? It’s estimated somewhere around 200 million wild rabbits are hopping around Australia, and they’re causing a lot of damage. Their huge numbers and large ...

Rabbits were not kept as pets until the 1800s. It was at this time that the domestic rabbit developed observable skeletal differences from wild European rabbits.

In parts of Australia, the invasive rabbit populations are viewed as destructive pests. In 1996, rabbits were estimated to cost the nation at least $600 million annually in lost agricultural ...

Feral rabbits are one of the most damaging invasive pests in Australia, and the roughly 200 million bunnies hopping around the continent are on the brink of another population boom thanks to ideal ...

In 1950, Australia had attempted the same thing, although it deliberately introduced the virus into its European rabbit population with the intention of killing most if not all the rabbits on that ...

The researchers sequenced DNA from 297 rabbits in six populations in South America, Europe and Australia, all places where rabbits were introduced within the past 200 years.

The researchers sequenced DNA from 297 rabbits in six populations in South America, Europe and Australia, all places where rabbits were introduced within the past 200 years.

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 ...

A previous study on the rabbit colonization of Australia found that Englishman Thomas Austin introducing 24 rabbits in 1859 caused a spike in the rabbit population that led to an ecological and ...