Able to run and leap with speed and grace, cottontails have the advantage of being intimately familiar with every square inch ...

Nature can sometimes pull off the most amazing returns. A prime example is the Omiltemi cottontail rabbit ( Sylvilagus ...

The eastern cottontail is a typical rabbit with long ears and hind legs ... The underparts are white to grayish white. The large protruding brown eyes are encircled with white or buff. A white or ...

There are several species of cottontail rabbit, but the eastern cottontail is the most common. This ubiquitous animal can be found from Canada to South America and, in the United States ...

Can you imagine a thick, 18-foot-long Burmese python slithering past your golf cart in Florida? It could happen! Burmese ...

No! This is a baby cottontail rabbit called a kitten or a kittie. The short, white stripe on its forehead has no apparent significance. Maybe its mother knows. The cottontail rabbit is one of a ...

The Omiltemi cottontail rabbit, a species lost to science since 1904, has been rediscovered in Mexico's Sierra Madre del Sur mountains. The elusive rabbit was spotted by a team led by José ...

Like all rabbits, our cottontail species detect sounds from long distances by swiveling and tilting their large ears. Moving each ear independently like a radar dish, they can pinpoint noises ...

In the foggy mountains of southern Mexico, hope was revived. A rabbit lost to the ages was seen once more. The Omiltemi cottontail, which had been absent for more than 120 years, has returned to ...