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

In an innovative approach to manage invasive rabbit populations, Australian scientists introduced the myxoma virus. Initial trials on Wardang Island examined the virus's ability to spread naturally. A ...

When European rabbits arrived in Australia in the 19th century, they were brought in as familiar game animals for hunting rather than as a threat to the environment. Within decades, however, their ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a century, scientists treated the wild rabbits of the Iberian Peninsula as one species with two regional forms. A new study argues that this familiar picture is wrong and that western ...

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, ...

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 ...