The nutria is a large, semiaquatic rodent species native to South America that has developed into an invasive species as it continues to crop up in marshes and swamps across the United States.

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended on Friday ...

But rather than just complaining about them, let’s put them on the menu.” At the top of the list is the nutria, a large, ...

SACRAMENTO – It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the US Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to know that nutria can be delicious. The large, semi-aquatic rodent is considered an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight years have passed since a reproducing population of nutria was found in western Merced County — their first discovery in the state since the 1970s. Despite eradication efforts that began ...

Launched during National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the initiative promotes the slogan "Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria" to combat these destructive rodents that have plagued U.S. wetlands for ...