This brown, fuzzy critter with its distinctive orange buck teeth may look cute, but it's causing all sorts of trouble— in ...

Often, nutria habitat, which is rugged and marshy, falls on private property, meaning state officials have to negotiate with the property owners for access.

Adult nutria are about two feet long and have a long, rat-like tail that can reach up to 18 inches long. They have long white whiskers, white muzzles, and dark yellow Austin Powers-like teeth.

California has a rodent problem, but it's not mice or rats. Nutria are 20-pound invasive rodents that like to burrow in the state's wetlands and water delivery systems. The state has killed 410 in ...

The nutria, resembling something between a large rat and a beaver, can weigh up to 9kg and consume up to a quarter of that mass daily in riverbank plants. Their destructive burrowing can damage ...

This fall, they have turned their attention to 350,000 acres of potential nutria habitat and places where nutria have been detected, such as the Wicomico River south of Salisbury and a peninsula ...

Even without a bounty program, nutria can be taken legally by licensed hunters and trappers as a rodent and nongame mammal (CCR Title 14, section 472). Again, hunters need to be careful not to ...

Q. What are nutria, and why are they now considered a pest? Nutria (or coypu) are like gophers on steroids. Since they live near water, they are often mistaken for beavers or muskrats. There are ...