It seems that many resources on rabbits mention the domestication of the European rabbit by French monks in 600AD, supposedly as foetal rabbit were considered fish (and therefore could be eaten at lent) by Pope Gregory the Great.
This is however a myth.
It seems Rabbit were domesticated much earlier.
I spent ages tryi g to download the pdf from the research journal Cell Press. Unfortunately it is a charged service. Ironically, the journal entry is open access but Cell Press wants to charge to view?
Thankfully using the OA.mg, which provides open access reasarch journals for free, I was able to find and download from Wayback machine.
The article has been discussed on many news sites aswell.
Here is link to original article-
Rabbits are commonly thought to have been domesticated in ∼AD600 by French monks. Using historical and archaeological records, and genetic m
Here is archive.org link to the pdf-
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