The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis. This discovery ...

The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis *1. This discovery ...

They guessed that the toothy impression might belong to the Amami rabbit, a wild and dark-furred nocturnal creature named after the Amami Islands. The rabbit evolved separately on the islands ...

I’m no magician, but today’s A Moment of Science brings you something you’ve never seen before: the black Amami rabbit. If you were expecting me to produce a long-eared, fluffy white ...

But a living reminder of their wildness can be found on two of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, if you have the patience to look for it: the endangered Amami rabbit, a “living fossil” that looks ...

An Amami rabbit is seen in this undated photo taken in Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture. (Mainichi/Kazuaki Kanda) TOKYO -- The Amami rabbit, an endangered species native to Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima ...

A team of scientists said Tuesday they had created a cloned embryo from the dead body of an endangered species of rabbit and are hoping for a birth. The Amami rabbit, or Pentalagus furnessi, lives on ...

For instance, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient hares, found only on Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima islands. In this episode of Journeys in Japan, actor Michael Keida heads deep into ...

This photo provided by the Tokunoshima Municipal Government shows a road marking to alert people about Amami rabbits painted on a town road in Kagoshima Prefecture. KAGOSHIMA -- The Tokunoshima ...