Hollywood would have difficulty inventing a rodent as scary as the South American swamp beast that has gained a toehold in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Imagine a rat-looking creature weighing ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California is making progress in its fight with giant rats. The giant rodents called nutria are an invasive species of rodent that can grow to three feet from their nose to the ...

For more than a year, giant rodent invaders with orange-hued teeth have munched through California’s marshland, threatening significant damage to the state’s wetlands and water infrastructure. Nutria ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

It's been one year since the California Department of Fish and Wildlife launched a formal effort to eradicate nutria from the state's wetlands. After not being seen in California since the 1970s, ...

It looks like California is about to get more money to eradicate giant swamp rats that have infiltrated the Central Valley. The House of Representatives is voting Friday on a bill that includes a ...

In 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig made an oil-soaked pelican the prevailing symbol of the precarious relationship between industry and the environment on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.

"Rodents of Unusual Size" takes its name from the giant killer ratlike creatures depicted in the fairy tale "The Princess Bride." But the documentary depicts real 20-pound-plus rodents, called nutria, ...

California Department of Fish and Wildlife senior wildlife biologist Greg Gerstenberg holds a nutria caught near Gustine in 2018. More than 500 nutria, a large aquatic South American rodent between ...