For more than a century, scientists took it for granted that only a single species of rabbit lived on the Iberian Peninsula, at most divided into two regional variants. A study published in 'Biological Conservation' now calls that into question.
According to its authors, from the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC) and research centres in Portugal and the United Kingdom, it is in fact a case of two species with separate evolutionary histories: two lineages, a single label.
