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 ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

We’ll wait for Christmas day.” That was the advice I told the crew of our Snowshoe Hare hunters. Two weeks before the opening ...

As winters have gotten shorter and warmer in northern forests, snowfall has decreased. That’s left snowshoe hares—which molt from brown to white with the seasons and glide over the snow on large ...

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 ...

Minnesota is home to the prolific cottontail rabbit, as well as two species of their relatives — the white-tailed jack rabbit ...

Only 21 species worldwide are known to do this, almost all in northern climates, according to an article in the journal ...

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 Lake ...

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 ...

Scan the floor of a snowy woodlot, field or forest and visibility will be excellent. The flick of a whitetail’s ear, the undulating lope of a gray squirrel against the snowcover or a grouse walking ...

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 ...