For tens of thousands of years, Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits munched on olive-drab sagebrush, dug burrows in the deep volcanic soil and did what rabbits do best. But in recent decades, the animals ...

Under bright moonlight, with the help of a spotlight-like flashlight, Paula Clements scanned the hip-high sagebrush for a reflective orange flag, which marked the site of a pygmy rabbit burrow. “See ...

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 ...