Scientists rediscover a Mexican rabbit they hadn’t seen in 120 years

Mongabay
May 23, 2025, 3:51 pm378 ptsTop
Footage captured in 2024 of a small rabbit hopping about in front of a camera trap had scientists baffled. The juvenile, with gray-brown fur and a black tail, didn’t resemble any known species in the Sierra Madre del Sur, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Biologist Fernando Ruiz-Gutiérrez anxiously…

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