In March, Louisiana officials announced a deal to free an unlikely folk hero and fugitive: Neuty the swamp rat. His fellow species members may not be so lucky. In 2020, New Orleans couple Myra and ...

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 ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

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, ...

Deep in Louisiana’s swamps, Mike returns to finish a mission that failed three years earlier: hunt, cook and eat invasive nutria. But finding dinner means entering a bayou where alligators, water ...

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, ...