A large invasive rodent capable of destroying up to 9 tons of plant material a year has made its way to Fresno, according to ...

Today, the rodents are also causing trouble along the Atlantic coast and in portions of California. While rodents aren’t a staple on many US dinner plates, nutria can be prepared a number of different ...

The decision to feature such graphic images on the front page with the article "By Tooth and Tale" on the Venice nutria rodeo is not only in poor taste but also raises serious ethical concerns.

Nutria are "oversized, wetland-loving rodents were brought to the U.S. for the fur trade and now they’re devouring marshlands ...

Crews are now getting help from outside the state. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy supplied an $11 million grant to bring in detection dogs from the East Coast. The dogs are experts at ...

The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive rat-like rodent — recommending that people try to turn it into a delicacy.

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 ...

SACRAMENTO – It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the US Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to know that nutria can be delicious. The large, semi-aquatic rodent is considered an ...

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended on Friday ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is highlighting an animal that’s causing major erosion to the banks of ditches ...