Rodents the size of large raccoons, sporting webbed feet and large orange teeth. Sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but the animal in question, nutria, prove surprisingly endearing in Chris ...

"Rodents of Unusual Size" takes its name from the giant killer ratlike creatures depicted in the fairy tale "The Princess Bride." But the documentary depicts real 20-pound-plus rodents ...

Fittingly for a movie borrowing its title from the 1987 fairy tale comedy "The Princess Bride," the nutria documentary "Rodents of Unusual Size" starts with a once-upon-a-time. Whether it ...

You might be familiar with “Rodents of Unusual Size” as fictional creatures in the 1987 comedy “The Princess Bride.” But the 2017 film screening Sunday in Olympia is neither a “Bride ...

In the 1973 novel The Princess Bride, Buttercup and Westley are taken by surprise when they are suddenly attacked by “rodents of unusual size,” or ROUS. The book describes the beasts as a ...

Buttercup and Westley may have doubted the ROUS' existence in 1987's The Princess Bride, but the love-stricken pair quickly caught on when the "Rodents of Unusual Size" attacked. A team of ...

Known as "nutria", these invasive South American rodents breed faster than bounty hunters can "control" them. With their orange teeth and voracious appetite they are eating up the coastal wetlands ...

“Rodents of unusual size (R.O.U.S.) do exist, and they do lurk in marshes!” Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources warns on its website.

Call them rodents of unusual size. The North American beaver, the region's largest rodent and the world's second-largest ...