Last week a friend sent me a photo of a baby cottontail small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. It had been lying, lifeless, on a welcome mat by the front door, courtesy of a neighbor's cat. It ...

The threatened New England cottontail — the region’s only native rabbit, made immortal in “The Adventures of Peter Cottontail” — appears to be making a comeback. Federal wildlife officials will ...

Motorists kill one rabbit for every mile of U. S. roadway in a year. The State Fish & Game Commission of New Jersey last fortnight announced that it had ordered 20,000 Western cottontails to replace ...

If asked to name the group of mammals to which biologists assign rabbits, many would answer "rodents." But that would be incorrect. Rabbits, like the familiar cottontails we see in our backyards, and ...

Last week a friend sent me a photo of a baby cottontail small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. It had been lying, lifeless, on a welcome mat by the front door, courtesy of a neighbor's cat. It ...

Rabbits are disappearing across the Northeast, and it’s not a magic trick. New England cottontails, the breed made famous by children’s literary hero Peter Rabbit, are becoming so rare, they narrowly ...

In the Scarborough Marsh on April 25, Julia Mast holds an antenna as she listens for blips indicating a radio-collared cottontail rabbit is nearby. Mast, a senior studying environmental science at the ...

After nine years of preparing these biweekly nature columns, I’ve decided that’s probably enough. I’d like to thank the publishers of the several newspapers who have had the kindness to run my essays ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. We hear a lot about the many invasive species we have in Maine, from insects ...

Because of the extreme heat and drought this summer, nature seems out of kilter. Flowers bloomed and wilted early. Mushrooms that usually produce bountiful crops in August are likely to be scarce.