What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study published by the ...

How Two Dozen Rabbits Started an Ecological Invasion in Australia The country’s “most serious pests” can be traced to one shipment from England in 1859, study shows ...

Sydney, Australia — A shark bit and killed a 17-year-old girl swimming off an eastern Australian island on Monday, officials said, in the country's third reported fatal attack in just over five ...

The myxoma virus was introduced to control the population of rabbits in Australia in 1950, initiating an evolutionary arms race between the virus and the rabbit's immune system.

Australia has long waged war on wild rabbits and their numbers are increasing in the act. In the past, rabbits caused widespread destruction in plague proportions. But scientific breakthroughs ...

A genomic analysis has helped to show that Australia’s invasive rabbit population probably originated from a shipment of two dozen wild English rabbits that arrived near Melbourne on Christmas ...

The British newspaper reported Sunday that Australia's kangaroo population has ballooned to 45 million animals from only 27 million in 2010, far outnumbering the continent's human population of 24 ...

There are calls today for the Victorian government to remove protections covering feral deer amid concerns their ballooning numbers could become the "next rabbit plague".

Crocs love feral pigs and quolls have a taste for rabbit—but it doesn't solve Australia's invasive species problem by Euan Ritchie, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ...

The myxoma virus, fatal to millions of Australian rabbits, is a textbook example of the unexpected twists in the evolution of viruses and their hosts.

Australia will deploy up to 100 soldiers and a military aircraft to Europe in an effort to support Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.

Here's is a first-look trailer for Daina Reid's Run Rabbit Run, which stars Sarah Snook as a fertility doctor frightened by her daughter's visions.