Hollywood would have difficulty inventing a rodent as scary as the South American swamp beast that has gained a toehold in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Imagine a rat-looking creature weighing ...

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 ...

It looks like California is about to get more money to eradicate giant swamp rats that have infiltrated the Central Valley. The House of Representatives is voting Friday on a bill that includes a ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is hoping you’ve got an appetite for protecting your environment. The service has recently announced that five invasive species currently spreading in various habitats ...

This brown, fuzzy critter with its distinctive orange buck teeth may look cute, but it's causing all sorts of trouble — in Germany, and across Europe.The nutria, also known as a coypu or swamp beaver, ...

If you want to try something new for dinner, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommends that more people eat nutria, wild pigs and other invasive species. You can hunt or fish for several on the ...

California Department of Fish and Wildlife senior wildlife biologist Greg Gerstenberg holds a nutria caught near Gustine in 2018. More than 500 nutria, a large aquatic South American rodent between ...