Learn more about chickens. The world’s smallest rabbit is the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services were fearful that this rabbit would go extinct ...

Living up to its common name, Brachylagus idahoensis is the world’s smallest rabbit, typically weighing less than a pound. They live in burrows across the Great Basin, including western Utah.

It's also slow to regrow: it takes about two decades, or ten pygmy rabbit lifetimes. Morgan Heim The world’s tiniest rabbit is roughly the size of a softball—a very, very soft softball.

But while we’re busy chasing “bigger,” we're overlooking a very rich and varied part of the ecosystem — yes, we’re talking ...