Invasive aquatic rodents known spotted in Sacramento County 02:38. SACRAMENTO — The invasive rodents known as nutria, spurred by California's wet winter, have been spotted on Sherman Island in ...

Nutria, large, invasive South American rodents, might be cute, but California really doesn’t want you keeping them as a pet. The Fish and Game Commission is looking to close a loophole that lets ...

While the nutria pose a huge threat to Central Valley's agriculture and its wildlife, the real damage would come if the nutria spread north of Interstate 580 and into the Sacramento–San Joaquin ...

Of the 1,680 nutria taken by members of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Nutria Eradication Program over the past two-and-a-half years, a whopping 663 (39.4%) have been hunted down ...

Nutria with orange teeth. Gerard Soury/Getty Images The invasive species has since spread to at least 20 states, primarily in those along the Gulf Coast, such as Louisiana and Florida.

Neuty the pet nutria hangs out on a porch swing at the Lacoste home in Bucktown on Monday, March 13, 2023. STAFF PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD Neuty was surely doomed.

The Baby Cakes retain and revamp Boudreaux the nutria mascot.jpg The Baby Cakes retain and revamp Boudreaux the nutria mascot. (Matthew Hinton) Some New Orleans minor league baseball fans may ...

That’s because nutria are an outlaw species in Louisiana.The big, orange-toothed rodents were brought to Louisiana from South America for the fur trade in the 1930s. When the fur market tanked ...

Nutria (Myocastor coypus) are relatively big rodents that grow to between 17 and 25 inches long (43 to 64 centimeters) from head to rump, which is about the same size as a raccoon.Their tail adds ...

“Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria,” the agency added. Nutrias can serve as a flavorful base for all sorts of dishes, according to Philippe Parola, a chef based in Baton Rouge, La., and the author ...

A group of nutria, small rodent like creatures that look like beavers, are living at Krauss Baker Park in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas because people are feeding them. They are also known as coypu or ...