SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — The invasive rodents known as nutria, spurred by California’s wet winter, have been spotted on Sherman Island in Sacramento County. California Fish and Wildlife was ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

A nutria is a large, semi-aquatic rodent native that is approximately 2 feet long. Its features include a large head, short legs, and a stout body that appears hump-backed on land. Their fur is ...

Back in 1899, a harmful rodent called nutria was introduced to the U.S. through the fur trade. Since then, they have damaged vegetation and crops, destroyed the banks of ditches and lakes, and caused ...

Neuty, the rescue nutria, is Louisiana’s most famous swamp rat. Probably the most famous swamp rat in the world for that matter. Like so many celebrities, Neuty occasionally suspends swimming in the ...

Most of our readers have never seen a nutria in real life, or even have a clue what one is. That's OK — you aren't missing too much if this describes you. Nutrias are sizable swamp rats with big ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

Neuty, the beloved Bucktown nutria, has been chosen to ride as Parade Marshal, in the Argus parade on Mardi Gras morning in Metairie. The celebrity swamp rat will also preside over the Mardi Paws dog ...

Myra Lacoste, one of the keepers of Bucktown’s beloved rodent ambassador Neuty the nutria, said she’s “going to be a nervous wreck.” Lacoste said she’s gotten word that a camera crew from the popular ...