A popular tourist attraction in Japan known as the "rabbit island" is seeing a surge in predators. Tourist food leftovers are drawing rats, crows, and wild boars from neighboring islands. The 900 ...

How do rabbits survive in the arctic and the desert? Wild rabbits can survive in some pretty extreme environments because they have special adaptations. What do arctic hares need to thrive in the cold ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officials say a disease is to blame for recent wild rabbit deaths. The department began testing carcasses after receiving a high number of ...

VERNALIS -- A virus that kills rabbits has reached California, officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced on Friday. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2, or RHDV2, ...

Pet bunnies love spring grass but keep those family members inside, experts say — or risk dooming Long Island’s wild rabbits by spreading a deadly hemorrhagic disease. The virus, known as Rabbit ...

The spread of a disease that’s almost always fatal for rabbits is concerning to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus-2 is a highly-contagious disease ...

A deadly and highly contagious rabbit virus, first identified in the U.S. last summer, has begun infecting Southern California’s wild rabbits, with deaths confirmed in Orange, San Bernardino, ...

This virus is deadly, long-lived and highly contagious, but it doesn’t affect people or other animals. By James Gorman There’s another deadly virus outbreak in the U.S., but this one is killing ...