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.

paddle-like tail, the nutria's rear appendage is thin and rat-like. Their distinctive front teeth are colored orange because they contain oxidized iron, which also makes them stronger. Nutria may ...

The post went on to explain that in celebration of February’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week, people should hunt, catch and cook the large, rat ... nutria with a round, nearly hairless ...

Cooking up the swamp rats could be a solution to the ... Muskrats are smaller with a sleek, laterally compressed tail compared to much larger nutria, which boast a thick, rounded, scaly tail ...

SALEM, Ore. (KEZI) — For National Invasive Species Awareness Week, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials are letting folks know that nutria, a large invasive rodent visually similar to beavers, are ...

Experts in this case are particularly focused on nutria—an herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal that looks like a cross between a giant rat and a beaver ... (and $6-per-tail hunting season ...

Commonly known by many south Louisianans as nutria rats or swamp rats ... where registered participants can receive up to $6 a tail. It coincides with the trapping season from Nov. 30 to March ...

Imagine a rat-looking creature weighing about 20 pounds and dragging a tail up to 18 inches long ... Known by a deceivingly healthy-sounding name —nutria — its eating and burrowing ways ...

Often mistaken for a beaver or a muskrat, nutria are sometimes referred to as swamp rats. The rodents can weigh up to 25 pounds and are about 2 feet long excluding the tail. One defining feature ...

rat-like tail thinly covered in bristly hairs; and noticeable white whiskers that protrude from either side of their nose. Nutria are native to South America. They were originally brought to the ...

Context: Rodent experts told Snopes the large rodent in the video is either a muskrat or a nutria ... is not a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) but looks like a muskrat from the tail which looks ...

Rating: Context: Rodent experts told Snopes the large rodent in the video is either a muskrat or a nutria, not a rat ... "This is not a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) but looks like a muskrat from the ...