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.

As rabbits go, “cute and cuddly” is often the standard. But there is one rabbit that is considered to be “scientifically cute” — the smallest rabbit in the world, the pygmy rabbit.

Small enough to fit in your hand, pygmy rabbits are the world’s smallest rabbit. They’re also the only North American rabbits who dig their own burrows. They need continuous expanses of sagebrush for ...