BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Scientists in Idaho will be flying military-style drone aircraft over the state’s sagebrush sea, not in a bid to find terrorists but to help locate the best habitat for one of West ...

BOISE, Idaho— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that the pygmy rabbit may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest rabbit and is ...

CASPER — Weighing less than 1 pound, with short ears, little legs and an endearingly “scampering gait,” the pygmy rabbit is the smallest rabbit species in America. Worryingly, though, its population ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Distinguishing closely related animal species can sometimes ...

Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...

Years ago, when I lived in the coastal Maine town of York, my science class was involved in a New England cottontail project. These rabbits — the only rabbit species native to Maine and New Hampshire ...

"While you might expect that a feral animal would revert to body types seen in wild populations, we found that feral rabbits' body-size and skull-shape range is somewhere between wild and domestic ...