Bigger than a rabbit, with longer, black-tipped ears, a longer tail, longer limbs, and much faster (up to 35 miles an hour), there are few more majestic sights in the countryside than a hare sprinting ...

The Hare Research Group at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, has published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most ...

1. Brown hares are easily identifiable. The brown hare is the larger of the two species of hares that occur in Britain (the other species being the mountain hare). The long black-tipped ears and ...

An exotic grass planted on farmland could have unexpected benefits for wildlife, scientists say. Elephant grass (Miscanthus) planted as a biomass crop is a valuable habitat for the brown hare, ...

A QUARTET of trumpeting whooper swans flying north west over my local brae last week signalled that spring is finally stirring. These birds, having wintered on Irish loughs, shores and flooded fields, ...

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Cases confirmed in Dorset and Essex with public urged to report sick or dead animals The first cases of rabbit virus have been confirmed in hares in the UK, highlighting a major new threat to the UK’s ...

Biologists have published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare. The genome consists of 2.9 billion base pairs, which form 23 autosomal chromosomes, and X and Y sex ...