A decade ago, the USGS warned that the ballooning swamp rat population had "literally eaten up" some 100,000 acres of coastal Louisiana wetlands. Thankfully, nutria eat mostly plants, meaning ...

Hollywood would have difficulty inventing a rodent as scary as the South American swamp beast that ... searching for nutria. This is not some Hollywood killer rat, but a rodent that likes to ...

I didn't even have to search for a nutria: One simply materialized before my eyes. This particular specimen was too large to call a rat. It was not in a pack, and the way it swam freely left no ...

rat-like tail thinly covered in bristly hairs; and noticeable white whiskers that protrude from either side of their nose.

Nutria – or coypu – can spread tapeworm and tuberculosis while burrowing through flood defenses (Picture: Gerard Soury/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) Disease ridden rat-like creatures with ...

Nutria — which resemble a cross between a beaver and an over-sized rat — can grow to be two ... primarily in those along the Gulf Coast, such Louisiana and Florida. In Texas, they've made ...