The pygmy rabbit now occupies only 10% of its historic range across Great Basin, according to petition seeking endangered listing.

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A dwindling population of rabbits, isolated in Washington since the ice age, may need help from Idaho relatives to survive. With no nearby relatives for recolonization, scientists are considering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows bunnies, with their big ears and fuzzy little bodies, are adorable, but did you realize these critters are also ...

The pygmy rabbit is the smallest North American rabbit and the only one to dig its own burrow. It resembles the larger cottontail rabbit, although it does not have the white cotton-ball-like tail that ...

On the edge of extinction, they are breeding like rabbits to avoid it. Eastern Washington was/is the home of the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. I’d never even heard of these cute little rascals until ...

In the rolling hills of the Columbia Basin in central Washington, a tractor kicked dust from a wheat field as an early May breeze filtered down from the Cascade Mountains rising in the west. In a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 9—A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282 acres near Quincy, will help secure a future for the endangered Columbia ...