Rabbits seem to be everywhere in Tahoe right now. Looking like lost juveniles, they scurry across parking lots and yards, and feast in local gardens, much to the dismay of local gardeners. Their ...

When humans domesticated wild rabbits and turned them into pet store favorites, they also changed their genome, a study has found. The change has been dramatic; while a pet rabbit will contentedly sit ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY —Kathy Meyer estimates she has taken as many as 3,600 wild rabbits into her Larkspur-area home over the past dozen years in hopes of rehabilitating them and returning them to the wild.

For tens of thousands of years, Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits munched on olive-drab sagebrush, dug burrows in the deep volcanic soil and did what rabbits do best. But in recent decades, the animals ...

SAGEBRUSH FLAT — Gizmo was gently pulled from his straw-lined pet carrier and deposited in the dirt under a scrubby sagebrush. After more than three years of coddling and hand-care in captivity at ...

MISSOULA – Until recently, little has been known about what genetic changes transform wild animals into domesticated ones. An international team of scientists, one of whom is a University of Montana ...