Delacroix fisherman Thomas Gonzales would rather collect crabs and hunt alligators, but between seafood seasons, he hunts nutria. Though it’s edible, he doesn’t eat the meat. He collects $5 per tail ...

Those are some uses humans have found for nutria. The giant, semiaquatic rodents also inspired Boudreaux D. Nutria, mascot for the New Orleans Baby Cakes minor league baseball team. Meanwhile, the ...

Fittingly for a movie borrowing its title from the 1987 fairy tale comedy "The Princess Bride," the nutria documentary "Rodents of Unusual Size" starts with a once-upon-a-time. Whether it concludes ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - "Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist." Well Wesley, indeed they do. It's as if the writers of the movie "The Princess Bride" knew that Rodents of Unusual Size would ...

Across the United States, a semi-aquatic rodent that can weigh as much as 20 pounds is chewing through wetlands, farms, and ...

There’s an animal in my freezer that looks like a giant rat. It was killed because it was acting oddly and because, well, giant rat = heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was dispatched because we’d decided ...

Award-winning documentarian Chris Metzler actually began his career working on B-movie spectacles about bizarre topics like man-eating ants that would become a surprisingly not-so-odd harbinger of his ...

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"Rodents of Unusual Size" takes its name from the giant killer ratlike creatures depicted in the fairy tale "The Princess Bride." But the documentary depicts real 20-pound-plus rodents, called nutria, ...

Nutria damage crops, wetlands, and flood infrastructure in many states, but California says it still has a small window to stop the rodent invasion.

California has a rodent problem. And it's a big one. Nutria are two-and-a-half foot long, 20-pound rodents that are often confused with beavers. The invasive species likes to burrow in the state's ...

Standing on a boat dock in Venice, Gabe Macormic faced a unique challenge: Find someone willing to take a sun-baked, 10-ton heap of dead nutria off his hands. Macormic had, on a lark, revived the long ...