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Giant Bunny Fossils Discovered Off Spain

Rob Quinn — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:50:00 CDT

On the Spanish island of Minorca up to 5 million years ago, the rabbit was king. Researchers there have discovered fossils belonging to the biggest-ever member of the bunny family, LiveScience reports. Nuralagus rex, weighing in at some 26 pounds—about six times the size of modern rabbits—had largely...

Giant Bunnies Hit Silver Screen

Kevin Spak — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:10:00 CST

Giant bunnies overran the 2008 Berlin Film Festival, reports Der Spiegel —in the form of a 5-minute documentary on the international intrigue that ensued when a German rabbit breeder sent a dozen of his 20-pounders to North Korea to be bred to help alleviate hunger. Instead, they met a tragic...

Kim Jong-Il Ate My Giant Bunnies!

Sam Gale Rosen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:24:57 CDT

Karl Szmolinsky sent giant rabbits to North Korea to alleviate hunger, and Kim Jong-Il ate them. The German rabbit farmer suspects that the twelve "German Grey Giants" he sent to the country were eaten at a birthday banquet for the dictator instead of being used in a breeding program as...