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 ...

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 ...

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 ...