Wildlife officials want residents to report nutria sightings so that damage to an already frail ecosystem can be mitigated.

Disease ridden rat-like creatures with bright orange teeth are spreading panic in California as their population explodes.

Nearly 1,000 rat-like creatures reported to be 2.5-feet and weigh 20 lbs have been spotted in the Bay Area, SFGate.com ...

Invasive species of rodents from South America threatened SF Bay Area as levee-wrecking nutria spread to new areas.

Close to a thousand nutria have been hunted down in the Bay Area this year alone, and wildlife officials are urging people to ...

A disturbingly large, invasive rodent, double the weight of a cat, is causing widespread concern in the Bay Area, threatening ...

An invasion of dangerous three-foot rat-like creatures with ... The CFWD added: 'Nutria do not construct dens, they burrow, frequently causing water-retention or flood control levees to breach ...

These rodents are often easy to mistake for beavers or muskrats, but their most distinctive features include large front teeth that are yellow to orange; a heavy, rat-like tail thinly covered in ...

But lately, something else has put this scenic body of water on ... search for a nutria: One simply materialized before my eyes. This particular specimen was too large to call a rat.

‘Yay, let’s make fur out of it.’ But they see a nutria and it just looks like a big rat.” When Gammage Torres has presented nutria as an option to customers, the reaction “has not been ...