But now there’s less snow. A hare blends into a snowbank in Scotland’s Monadhliath Mountains. The United Kingdom’s only native lagomorph trades its mouse brown summer coat for a pale winter ...

No snow, no hares: Climate change pushes emblematic species north Date: March 30, 2016 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its big ...

densely furred hind feet that give snowshoe hares excellent buoyancy in soft, deep snow, and their variable coats that turn white in the winter and reddish-brown in the summer. These huge hind ...

MADISON – A warming climate and a lack of snow is pushing snowshoe hares farther north, limiting where Wisconsinites are able to spot the creatures. Jon Pauli and Ben Zuckerberg have been ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these ...

"Hares begin to change color based on environmental cues such as temperature and snow depth, but the change doesn't happen overnight. The whole molting process takes about a month.

A middle school science teacher redesigned her life science curriculum as interconnected units anchored in real-world ...

A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its big feet, which allow it to skitter over deep snow to escape lynx, coyotes and other predators. It changes color with the seasons, assuming a ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these ...