In March, Louisiana officials announced a deal to free an unlikely folk hero and fugitive: Neuty the swamp rat. His fellow species members may not be so lucky. In 2020, New Orleans couple Myra and ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

Nothing describes the nutria’s shortage of animal magnetism so well as its genus, Myocastor, which can be translated from the Latin as “rat beaver.” Along with the large rodent’s capacity to devastate ...

Wildlife officials have told local California residents to eat "giant swamp rats" that are "delicious" and "invasive". The US Fish and Wildlife service took to its Facebook page to tell it's community ...

In 1970, Don Garlits had a horrific drag racing explosion that changed the course of racing history. He’s restored the car that started it all.

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY – Nutria, a giant rodent also called the swamp rat, is continuing to invade California's Central Valley, according to the US Department of Fish and Wildlife. This invasive species ...