Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greg Gerstenberg, senior biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, finds a nutria caught in one of the traps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California is under invasion from a 20-pound rodent once believed to have been eradicated from the state – and officials now fear ...

California believed nutria were eradicated, but they reappeared in the Central Valley. A new genetic study indicates these ...

A newly published study by California Department of Fish and Wildlife scientists offers the clearest picture yet of how nutria — a destructive, invasive rodent — reappeared in California after being ...

The state of California is declaring an emergency over a non-native species of rodent being seen with increasing frequency near the San Joaquin Delta. Wildlife teams are being deployed to battle a ...

California is under invasion from a 20-pound rodent once believed to have been eradicated from the state – and officials now fear humans may be to blame. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...