For most of their history, members of the rabbit family fit perfectly into an image of small, floppy-eared critters that were ...

The researchers conducted a two-week-long experiment on eight female European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) to see whether ...

What Is a Flemish Giant Rabbit? The Flemish giant rabbit is a the largest and oldest breed of domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus), a subspecies of European rabbits. They originated ...

Not many can call this tourist attraction home, save the hundreds of feral European rabbits that roam the island. Dubbed "Rabbit Island," Ōkunoshima has become more popular since 2014 ...

To better understand the genetic changes that allow European rabbits to survive in the wild, researchers of the new study sequenced the genomes of 297 rabbits—including six feral populations ...

Compared with similar studies of the European rabbit, which show an average of just 5 percent viability with 19 other plant species, it would seem the Amami rabbits have greater success planting ...

“In 1859, an Englishman named Thomas Austin released 24 European rabbits onto his estate as game animals, but the population of rabbits exploded, causing an infestation that continues to cause ...