Did you know Australia has a rabbit problem? It’s estimated somewhere around 200 million wild rabbits are hopping around ...

What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study published by the ...

Australia is home to roughly 200 million rabbits, which are not native to the country and damage crops and ecosystems. Bettmann / Getty Images In Australia today, European wild rabbits eat through ...

What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study by the ...

Across the vast Australian continent, feral pigs, feral deer and European rabbits roam in their millions. By different names—wild boar, venison, and lapin—these could all be served in a ...

The colonization of Australia by the European rabbit is one of history's most impactful instances of colonization and is seldom if ever mentioned in a textbook.

For most of its existence, the European rabbit was restricted to the Iberian Peninsula and the South of France. The Romans dispersed the species and this spread accelerated in the Middle Ages. Rabbits ...

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 ...

What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia's "most devastating biological invasion," according to a new study by the Proceedings of ...

What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study published by the ...

By Heather Chen, CNN What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new ...