It’s mid-February, and Parks and Rec hikers are headed up from Crow Hill Road to Lawson Meadows. The skiers soon disappeared, leaving the snowshoe-ers to plod our way up. The lead hikers got lucky — a ...

Hares and rabbits look similar, and some may hop to the conclusion that they're the same animal. Not so fast. Our Weird Animal Question of the Week comes from Tristan Ishtar, who asked: "What's the ...

Baby hares, called leverets, are born looking like miniature version of their parents – fully furred, eyes open, and pretty much ready to begin hopping around. They are able to live on their own only ...

The two rows of frills on a white-speckled sea hare’s back line its hidden shell. I didn’t say the opposite sex of their own species because sea hares don’t have that bother. They’re hermaphrodites, ...

The snowshoe hare has a coat for every occasion. Well, actually, just two coats for two occasions: a white one for winter and a brown one for summer. This special molting pattern helps the unassuming ...

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 ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these larger hind ...

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 ...

I have seen a lot of hare tracks when skiing at the Breckenridge Nordic Center especially around Beaver Meadows, but I have not been lucky enough to spot one. Their actual footprint is not clearly ...

A new study, which used 44 years of data, shows that as the globe has warmed, altering the timing and amount of snow cover, snowshoe hares' winter transformation may be out of sync with the color of ...