A snowshoe hare captured on one a game camera used to monitor their populations in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. (Courtesy of Alexej Siren) This story is part of a New England ...

Biologist Alexej Siren shows a set of snowshoe hare tracks in the snow in the White Mountains. The hares have very large paws to help them travel quickly over the snow.

The lynx is persistent, but the hare is fast, with a top speed of 30 miles per hour on open snow. Usually, the Canada lynx is successful in its hunt, but the hare escapes. This time.

Billings Gazette file photo by Case Riffe via AP / A cottontail rabbit heads for cover along a snow-covered path at Riverfront Park in Billings, Mont. Unlike cottontails, snowshoe hares have the ...

In the biting cold and snow-filled backcountry of the Seeley-Swan Valley, researchers from the University of Montana are looking for what should be nearly invisible. After all, snowshoe hares ...