Small enough to fit in your hand, pygmy rabbits are the world’s smallest rabbit. They’re also the only North American rabbits who dig their own burrows. They need continuous expanses of sagebrush for ...

There was talk of a release this fall, but it seems unlikely there will be one before next fall. That of course depends on next year's breeding season, says Rachel Lamson, one of the Oregon Zoo rabbit ...

WENATCHEE -- Government agencies say it is still too early to tell whether the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit can survive without experimental crossbreeding. More of the adult rabbits survived ...

EPHRATA -- The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction. The tiny ...

BOISE, Idaho— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that the pygmy rabbit may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest rabbit and is ...

EPHRATA, Wash. — Wildlife experts are making one last effort to save the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, believed extinct in the wild since mid-2004. The pygmy rabbit is the smallest rabbit in ...