HOUSTON — A new campaign is encouraging Americans to consider an unusual solution to invasive species control: eating them. Launched during National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the initiative ...

Nutria are large, semi-aquatic rodents native to South America that have spread aggressively across the Southern United ...

Users jumped into the comments to give their takes. Chef urges people to eat rodents running wild in US region: 'Yummy yummy' ...

SACRAMENTO – It's National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the US Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to know that nutria can be delicious. The large, semi-aquatic rodent is considered an ...

A bigger bounty for nutria didn’t result in a bigger body count last year. Louisiana hunters and trappers notched one of the smallest numbers of kills since the the state nutria control program was ...

YORK COUNTY, Va. — 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 equals heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was ...

Hunters are being paid $5 per nutria to eliminate the voracious wetland grass eaters along Louisiana's coast, through a $1.7 million federal-state program. Nutria, an invasive species imported from ...

(KXAN) — A mysterious animal was recently spotted swimming in Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The state’s Parks and Wildlife Department later identified it as a nutria — but just what the heck is ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KXAN) — A mysterious animal was recently ...