Most of our readers have never seen a nutria in real life ... Nutrias are sizable swamp rats with big orange buck teeth poking out of their mouths. They've got thick fur and, in the wild, a ...

You can also distinguish a nutria from a capybara by looking at its muzzle. Nutrias have white on their muzzles, as well as ...

Then consider the nutria, a huge, "semiaquatic" rodent that looks like a cross between a beaver and a sewer rat, but with bright orange incisors. Also know as swamp rats, nutria on average weigh ...

Once considered a pest, these swamp rats eventually became a key part of Louisiana's cuisine, and, quite surprisingly, have a ...