Minnesota is home to two varieties of the small mammal we simply refer to as rabbits. In Duluth we are in the midst of the overlapping ranges of those two animals. Their appearance is similar enough ...

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 ...

This year, a biological force of nature bigger than a bull moose lives in the boreal forests of North America. It’s most visible around dawn and twilight. That’s when the biggest animals of the ...

Average wt. 2-3 lb (.9-1.4 kg); Average length 14"-19" (35.6-48.3 cm); Hind foot average 4 1/2" (11.4 cm); Ear length average 3" (7.6 cm). The snowshoe hare's most distinctive feature is its very ...

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

The snowshoe hare is one of approximately 20 animals in the world that turn white in the winter, and it’s one that faces some serious concerns here in the Keystone State due to climate change and loss ...

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 ...

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 ...

DETROIT — A color-changing rabbit once found hopping through fields and forests across Michigan has become so rare, hunters choose not to shoot it. Not since the mid-1990s has a customer asked White ...

Who would have guessed Halloween's snowstorm would be the region's deepest snowfall event since last fall? It's early February, and what little snow we received has quickly melted. Is this going to be ...

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 ...