LOS BANOS, Calif. — One of the most recent threats to California's environment has webbed feet, white whiskers, shaggy fur and orange buck teeth that could be mistaken for carrots. "Boy, they're an ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

STOCKTON (CBS13) — It's larger than a muskrat and smaller than a beaver, but has an appetite for destruction. The nutria is an animal keeping Fish and Wildlife officials busy. Several of these rodents ...

The nutria invasion of California continues. Greg Gerstenberg, a biologist and nutria operations chief with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said 372 nutria had been trapped in the ...

AVERY ISLAND, La. -- Louisiana's most despised varmint, the marsh-chomping swamp rat called nutria, has long been linked to one of the state's most beloved products -- Tabasco sauce. It's a story that ...

Most daddy-daughter dates include movies, dinner or dances, but Walter Heathcock and his daughter Irelyn do it a little differently - they hunt nutria. "Nutria are these small, about twenty or ...

Southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina can crow about many things, from sandy beaches to mild climates to fresh seafood. But they also share a not-so-nice distinction. Both are ground ...

My family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. “Last fall they cleared out seven ...

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 ...

Drive until you see the Gulf of Mexico, and before you hit the water take the last left on a dirt road. That’s where Justin Choate lives. Justin Choate hunts nutria from his boat in the wetlands near ...