Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 6—If a beaver and a rat had a baby, it might look something like a nutria. The semiaquatic rodent, which is an invasive ...

(KXAN) — A mysterious animal was recently spotted swimming in Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The state’s Parks and Wildlife Department later identified it as a nutria — but just what the heck is ...

And now comes another novel idea for solving the state’s nutria problem: turn them into dog treats. MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A lone nutria stands on the water's edge at Audubon Park.

Nutria are on the move, eating up marshes in three Louisiana coastal parishes that had been largely untouched by the invasive rodent for almost a decade. That's the bad news. The good news is that the ...

There’s an animal in my freezer that looks like a giant rat. It was killed because it was acting oddly and because, well, giant rat = heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was dispatched because we’d decided ...

In 1970, a decent nutria pelt brought about $4, almost three times the newly increased minimum hourly wage of $1.45. This was great money, if not altogether easily made — skinning, fleshing and ...

Vegetarianism has become synonymous with environmentalism, the idea being that going meat-free saves not just animals but the planet (which certainly has some truth to it, especially when it comes to ...