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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chef poses with a giant nutria in front of a large barbecue grill. (Dac Collins) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them. Last month, the federal agency posted an article about "5 Invasive Species You Can Hunt, ...

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 ...

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.

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — “Save a swamp, Sauté a Nutria.” Wildlife officials are proposing a special way of dealing with an invasive species wreaking havoc on Florida’s natural reserves. The nutria, ...

SALEM, Ore. (KEZI) — For National Invasive Species Awareness Week, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials are letting folks know that nutria, a large invasive rodent visually similar to beavers, are edible.

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

“Nutria” is a word only occasionally overheard at the rodeo; the proper name confers a dignity that the species long ago forfeited. Nutrias are more often called “rats,” adorned with such modifiers as ...