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 ...

Please? I’m invasive and delicious.” FWS made a follow-up post on Feb. 27, detailing how to identify nutria by their arched backs, white whiskers, and rat-like tails. The service also reiterated the ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed residents of California to eat a certain rodent that has been called a "giant swamp rat" in efforts to protect the state's marshland.

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.

Since 2023 more nutria have been taken from Fresno County than any county in California, according to CDFW data. In the ...

EDIRNE, TURKIYE - FEBRUARY 08: A nutria, also known as coypus or swamp rats, swims a river in Edirne ... is among the invasive species that affects natural habitats by hunting the eggs of water ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not known for its culinary recommendations, but a recent Facebook post has an eye-catching, but perhaps unappetizing photo of a furry nutria along with the ...

You heard it right. That rodent is called *** nutria. Some refer it as *** water rat. The large semi-aquatic rodents are considered an invasive species, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Another person was more skeptical. “I'd eat a lot of things but I draw the line at Giant rats,” she wrote on Facebook. Nutria aren’t the only invasive species wildlife agencies have ...

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 ...

threatened or endangered species that make their habitats therein. Originally bred for a fur trade that collapsed in the 1940s, feral nutria populations have since spread to at least 16 states ...