For two days every February, teams of outdoorsmen armed with 12-gauge shotguns scour the delta in flat-bottom mud boats and ...

Let’s talk more about their locations and preferred habitats now. While both the capybara and the nutria originated in ...

With about six weeks to go before the government shuts down, House Republicans are still bickering over how best to spend ...

destroying foliage and turning beautiful natural habitats into wastelands? Why, you eat them of course. Wait, what? Yup, that's what Louisianians started doing in the late '90s when nutria -- 20 ...

Tourists in Czechia’s capital regularly come face to face with nutria, large semiaquatic rodents native to South America that look like a cross between a rat and a capybara. Some mistake them ...

I didn't even have to search for a nutria: One simply materialized before my eyes. This particular specimen was too large to call a rat. It was not in a pack, and the way it swam freely left no ...

California is intensifying its fight against the invasive nutria, commonly known as swamp rats, as they continue to spread across Fresno County ...

California nutria recently have migrated into food-producing areas along the San Joaquin River. “We’re in a war with giant swamp rats, and our farms, levees and waterways will pay the price if ...