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 ...

Nutrias are more often called “rats,” adorned with such modifiers as “marsh,” “swamp,” or “filthy.” Apart from when it peeks out of a burrow hole or imitates a plant, a nutria is not especially cute.

Deep in Louisiana’s swamps, Mike returns to finish a mission that failed three years earlier: hunt, cook and eat invasive ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

What if the next great meal on your plate came not from a farm or a grocery store, but from a swamp? It might sound outlandish, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is making a serious case ...

Rodents of unusual size are no longer just something from the movies. These swamp rats known as nutria are a scourge spreading across Contra Costa and Solano counties, and they’re a risk to our crops, ...