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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chef poses with a giant nutria in front of a large barbecue grill. (Dac Collins) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively ...

Nutria is on the menu. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently marked National Invasive Species Awareness Week with an interesting suggestion: to help protect the environment, bust out the grill.

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 ...

Rep. Josh Harder brought a stuffed nutria to Congress in a push for funding eradication efforts. (photo: Harder's office) Invasive nutria are making inroads in Bay Area watersheds and gaining a lot of ...

California’s most-destructive and least-welcome swamp rodents have arrived in its fifth-largest city. To be precise, they’ve ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife hit a milestone in its ongoing efforts to control the state's nutria infestation on Friday morning when they successfully trapped Nutria number 300 at a ...

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 ...

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 ...