There’s an animal in my freezer that looks like a giant rat. It was killed because it was acting oddly and because, well, giant rat = heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was dispatched because we’d decided ...

Where some in Congress see a cruel animal killing-device, U.S. Rep. Garret Graves sees an important tool for controlling the explosive growth of nutria, the large, orange-toothed rodents that are ...

Nutria are large, semi-aquatic rodents native to South America with coarse brown fur, webbed feet, and a pair of long front teeth with orange tips. Larger than muskrats and smaller than beavers, two ...