This article was originally published on www.mentalfloss.com as The Surprisingly Controversial Origins of the Easter Bunny.

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The Christian holiday of Easter is built on top of a pagan festival celebrating the spring equinox, with the symbols of the ...

Hares and rabbits both belong to the family of Leporidae, but are different species. Today we will look at the differences between Hares and Rabbits. Hares and rabbits are both members of the ...

Rabbit or hare? These mammals are both in the order Lagomorpha, but they have very different characteristics. What separates them? And what rabbit isn’t a rabbit at all? Science Trek is available to ...

Colloquially known as "bunnies," rabbits and hares are small mammals that can be found in a variety of habitats, including meadows, woodlands, grasslands, deserts and even wetlands. But did you know ...

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 ...

Hippity, hoppity, Easter's on its way—and so is the eponymous Easter bunny. But aside from being a magical, candy-carrying creature, what exactly is Peter Cottontail: bunny, rabbit, or hare? Or are ...

Joe Snedeker asks, "What's the difference between a rabbit and a hare?" Find out in this week's edition of Wham Cam.