DAVID STEINER FIRST NOTICED THEM at his Suisun Marsh duck club, Joice Island Mallard Farms, a couple of years ago. "You'd see this animal swimming with just its head above the water," Steiner said.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After much public outcry, state officials now say they will let a Louisiana couple keep a 22-pound nutria -- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered ...