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 has long waged war on wild rabbits and their numbers are increasing in the act. In the past, rabbits caused widespread destruction in plague proportions.

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike European rabbits, most North American rabbits don’t dig extensive tunnel networks or warrens in the soil. However, they will dig small holes or depressions for nesting.

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.

Researchers at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have uncovered how natural selection “rewilds” domestic rabbits. The study, published in Nature Ecology and ...

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 ...