Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Heathcock retrieves a nutria; swamp rats feed ­heavily on the root systems of marsh grass. I CAN’T HELP but be transported ...

Over the last few decades, a new invasive species has moved into the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported. Populations of nutria are spreading across a growing portion of the U.S. Many states are ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVID STEINER FIRST NOTICED THEM at his Suisun Marsh duck club, Joice Island Mallard Farms, a couple of years ago. "You'd see this animal swimming with just its head above the water," Steiner said.

California has a giant rodent problem. To clarify, it's not that California has a huge problem with run-of-the-mill rats, it's that the state has an emerging problem with jumbo-sized critters. Nutria, ...

Neuty, the pet nutria that became a local sensation in 2023, has been diagnosed with cancer, according to his keeper, Denny Lacoste. A week ago, Denny and his wife, Myra, noticed an egg-sized lump ...

“Nutria” is a word only occasionally overheard at the rodeo; the proper name confers a dignity that the species long ago forfeited. Nutrias are more often called “rats,” adorned with such modifiers as ...