What do you do when pests threaten your immediate environment, destroying foliage and turning beautiful natural habitats into wastelands? Why, you eat them of course. Wait, what? Yup, that's what ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

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 ...

Back in 1899, a harmful rodent called nutria was introduced to the U.S. through the fur trade. Since then, they have damaged vegetation and crops, destroyed the banks of ditches and lakes, and caused ...

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 line ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can. The nutria, ...

"Rodents of Unusual Size" I have to hand it to the "Rodents" directorial trio Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer. They've made a little gem that covers the waterfront on sensitive issues ...

It looks like California is about to get more money to eradicate giant swamp rats that have infiltrated the Central Valley. The House of Representatives is voting Friday on a bill that includes a ...

Thumbs up: Eating rodents ain’t your thing? Good news. The James Beard Foundation, which awards the food industry's version of the Oscars, named Gaido's Seafood Restaurant one of its 25 American ...

Nutria, a large invasive rodent species, was recently discovered in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Contra Costa County, causing concern among wildlife experts. They want residents to report ...

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY – Nutria, a giant rodent also called the swamp rat, is continuing to invade California's Central Valley, according to the US Department of Fish and Wildlife. This invasive species ...

In The New York Times in 1917, a year in which it was forecast that “the civilized world of women will wear more fur than ever before,” a reporter asked a pelt importer what his furs were made of.