This brown, fuzzy critter with its distinctive orange buck teeth may look cute, but it's causing all sorts of trouble— in ...

Nutria, which were originally imported for the fur industry from 1899 through the 1940s, began escaping captivity shortly ...

Nutria are large, semi-aquatic rodents native to South America with coarse brown fur, webbed feet, and a pair of long front teeth with orange tips. Larger than muskrats and smaller than beavers ...

Nutria (Myocastor coypus) are relatively big rodents that grow to between 17 and 25 inches long (43 to 64 centimeters) from head to rump, which is about the same size as a raccoon.Their tail adds ...

Nutria with orange teeth. Gerard Soury/Getty Images The invasive species has since spread to at least 20 states, primarily in those along the Gulf Coast, such as Louisiana and Florida.

Nutria are native to South America, but over the past century or so, they have traveled around the globe. In some places, they’re better known as coypu, from the Spanish word coipú. (In Spanish ...

Invasive species, such as nutria, Asian tiger mosquitos, and wild boars, are causing significant harm to Louisiana’s ...

Nutria are recognized as an invasive species capable of destroying native vegetation and agricultural crops. Over the years, ...

Of the 1,680 nutria taken by members of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Nutria Eradication Program over the past two-and-a-half years, a whopping 663 (39.4%) have been hunted down ...

Of the 3.6 million nutria harvested between 2002 and 2013, hunters killed the most, nearly 1 million, in Terrebonne Parish. In Plaquemines Parish, hunters collected more than 450,000 nutria tails ...

In Louisiana, nutria ground zero, their arrival is blamed on Tabasco tycoon E.A. "Mr. Ned" McIlhenny, a noted conservationist who imported the animals in 1938. Two years later, ...

Nutria were brought to Louisiana from South America for the fur trade in the 1930s. When the fur market tanked, many of the semi-aquatic animals were released into the wild, ...