Nutria can specifically be found along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southeastern United States. Its exact population, though, is unknown. The rat-like behemoth is larger ...

Invasive nutria are wreaking havoc on delicate wetland ecosystems, and wildlife officials think eating them might be part of ...

Experts in this case are particularly focused on nutria—an herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal that looks like a cross between a giant rat and a beaver. “Please consider the following slogan ...

The perfect project to combat that image is taking on the nutria, an invasive swamp rat that threatens to damage levees and eat through Central Valley wetlands. Aug. 7, 2019 Originally bred for a ...

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.

Cooking up the swamp rats could be a solution to the growing problem. The lean and mild meat of nutria has been compared to rabbit or the dark meat of a turkey. Wildlife officials said the ...

And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, an invasive swamp-dwelling rodent, is wreaking havoc on California ecosystems, according to the California ...