A video shared online in June 2024 authentically showed a giant rat on the loose in a New York City bodega. Rodent experts told Snopes the large rodent in the video is either a muskrat or a nutria, ...

There’s an animal in my freezer that looks like a giant rat. It was killed because it was acting oddly and because, well, giant rat = heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was dispatched because we’d decided ...

California Department of Fish and Wildlife senior wildlife biologist Greg Gerstenberg holds a nutria caught near Gustine in 2018. More than 500 nutria, a large aquatic South American rodent between ...

Nutria were imported to Louisiana from South America for their fur. The resident population grew from critters that either escaped or were released into the wild. Since then, the state has developed a ...

Nutria, like those seen in this file photo, are considered invasive in the U.S. Here’s what to do if you see one in southern Illinois. Amanda McCoy [email protected] Southern Illinois has seen ...

BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Md. -- Trapper Dean Hopkins noses his boat along the riverbank and cuts the motor. There's a cage nestled in the tall, yellow grass. Hopkins grabs it and swings it ...

They’re large, fast-breeding, invasive and destructive. They’re also, apparently, delicious. Nutria, which may grow up to 2 feet long, weigh 20 pounds, and eat a quarter of their body weight in ...

Scampering through wetlands across the south, a small rodent could soon travel north of the James River and wreak ecological havoc. Nutrias are an invasive species that are already eroding wetlands ...