Rabbits are common residents of North Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma. They are important prey animals in wildlife communities and can occasionally wreak havoc upon crops, pastures, gardens, and yards ...

All right class, get out your pencils and notebooks. I'm going to explain a concept critical to any naturalist, and I will root my discussion with local cottontail rabbits. When naturalists describe ...

Image of the Day: Cottontail Cool The ears of a desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) help the mammal keep cool under the baking sun with a network of blood vessels that acts like a car radiator.

Rabbit, bunny, cottontail, coney, hare — all tend to converge into one single image of a critter with huge hind feet landing beside the body, pushing off into another leap, fluffy white tail flashing, ...

A highly contagious and deadly virus targeting wild and domestic rabbits has been detected in two rabbit carcasses found in the Canada de San Vicente Ecological Reserve in Ramona. Wildlife officials ...

GRAND FORKS – The eastern cottontail is a rabbit and not a bird, but cottontails come to our bird feeders. They are also important in the diet of some birds. Cottontails have provided entertainment in ...

Because of the extreme heat and drought this summer, nature seems out of kilter. Flowers bloomed and wilted early. Mushrooms that usually produce bountiful crops in August are likely to be scarce.