A 55-million-year-old fossil of an early lagomorph delineates a group of animals that includes both rabbits and hares. Further back still, another group of extinct mammals, zalambdalestids, share a ...

Rabbits fall into a select group of mammals called “lagomorphs,” which also includes the lanky and long-eared hares of the open plains, and the short and stout pikas of the mountains.

Myxomatosis caused the death of a large number of hares in Spain in the summer A conservation biologist has warned that hares are "in crisis" and claims the number dying from a myxomatosis-like ...

Getty Images Scotland has approximately 135,000 hares, with most of them found on grouse moors Max Wiszniewski, of the Revive group pressing for grouse moor reform, added: "Iconic mountain hares ...