big bunny, named Minocarn King of the Rabbits or Nuralagus rex, likely weighed in at more than 25 pounds – about six times the size of modern European rabbits now inhabiting the area.

Researchers working off the coast of Spain have made a super-sized discovery, and just in time for Easter, too.

Scientists studying the island of Minorca have uncovered approximately five-million-year-old fossils from a giant rabbit, according to the Society of Vertebrae Paleontology .

This big bunny, named Minocarn King of the Rabbits or Nuralagus rex, likely weighed in at more than 25 pounds – about six times the size of modern European rabbits now inhabiting the area.

Lead researcher Dr. Josep Quintana said the huge hare is a little different than other members of the rabbit family. Quintana told the Society of Vertebrae Paleontology that the Nuralagus rex had lost its ability to hop and compared the way the rabbit might move to "a beaver out of water." The rabbit also had smaller ears and eyes, proportionally speaking, than today's rabbits.

Reports from Society of Vertebrae Paleontology suggested the prehistoric cottontail was able to grow to such astonishing proportions because of a lack of predators on the island. Other vertebrae species on the island included dormice, bats and giant land tortoises, none of which posed a threat to Nuralagus rex.

Though the discovery of the giant rabbit is a breakthrough, some modern rabbits rival Nuralagus rex in size.

Ralph, a nearly 42-pound Continental Giant rabbit from East Sussex, made headlines in the U.K. last year. According to Sky News , the big bunny was nearly four feet long when it was only 12-months old and ate nearly $16 of food a day.

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