Rabbits are often seen as cute and harmless. Yet the creature is behind one of the globe’s most harmful biological invasions, ravaging Australia. With an annual seven litters of an average five ...

What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study by the Proceedings of the ...

Adelaide, Australia: This "convention" of feral rabbits is a common sight in the "Outback" frontier country near Adelaide, South Australia. How does domestication change wild animals? When ...

A genomic analysis has helped to show that Australia’s invasive rabbit population probably originated from a shipment of two dozen wild English rabbits that arrived near Melbourne on Christmas Day ...