I knew we were in trouble when I saw the third snowshoe hare. It was almost noon on the first day of elk season back in early November. I had a knife, hunting rifle and adequate ammunition. Yet what I ...

The quintessential image of a snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) is a pure white bunny — although it is a hare, not a rabbit– nestled in powdery snow, gazing out from under the overhanging branches of a ...

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Canada has found that despite rising temperatures due to global warming, snowshoe hares with mismatched coats are experiencing reduced ...

One of the many things I love about winter is the snow and the ability to track the animals that live in our backyards. It’s such an adventure to be able to go outside and discover who has been ...

As winters have gotten shorter and warmer in northern forests, snowfall has decreased. That’s left snowshoe hares—which molt from brown to white with the seasons and glide over the snow on large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I stood at the edge of a snow-choked evergreen swamp, slowly congealing and thinking moodily how much white-rabbit hunting has in ...

Snowshoe hares that camouflage themselves by changing their coats from brown in summer to white in winter face serious threats from climate change, and it's uncertain whether hare populations will be ...

Before all the snow melted last week, I went snowshoeing at the Great Works Regional Land Trust’s Rocky Hills Preserve South Berwick. It was that day with close to zero temperatures. Not much was ...

Researchers have noticed an exceptional number of white snowshoe hares on brown earth. They contend that climate change and the color mismatch are causing much more hare mortality. University of ...

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there’s a killer rabbit that takes out three knights in one bloody scene. It’s hilarious because rabbits are so innocuous — or at least they used to be. New ...