Texas is home to some of the creepiest ... It’s a giant, monstrous rat. Nutria need a habitat that’s water-rich, so they are most populous in the eastern half of our state and over into ...

The lean and mild meat of nutria has been compared to rabbit or ... Her stories focus on space, wildlife, and any weird happenings in Texas. She previously covered community news and breaking ...

Three years ago a Fort Worth park had a literal giant rat problem ... of the Fort Worth nutria was extermination. Nutria, also known as coypus, have appeared throughout Texas around aquatic ...

They can be found in central and east Texas. The initiative highlights the culinary potential of nutria meat, comparing it to rabbit or dark turkey meat, suggesting it could be a viable food ...

Nationwide, nutria destroy more than $1 million in crops annually, according to the Texas Invasive Species Institute. Despite their healthy-sounding names, nutria are also known to carry ...

Nutria can specifically be found along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southeastern United States. Its exact population, though, is unknown. The rat-like behemoth is larger ...

A nutria-hat boom is likely still a few years away in Texas. Most of the hatmakers I asked ... But they see a nutria and it just looks like a big rat.” When Gammage Torres has presented nutria ...

Please? I’m invasive and delicious.” FWS made a follow-up post on Feb. 27, detailing how to identify nutria by their arched backs, white whiskers, and rat-like tails. The service also reiterated the ...

Oklahoma is home to nutria only in marshy ... a "marsh rat" or "river rat" may run into their namesake in that region or if they travel to lowlands of neighboring Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas ...

Adult nutria are about two feet long and have a long, rat-like tail that can reach up to 18 inches long. They have long white whiskers, white muzzles, and dark yellow Austin Powers-like teeth.

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.