The nutria is a large, semi-aquatic rodent with orange teeth native to South America that was brought to the United States in 1889 for its fur, according to the National Invasive Species ...

Disease ridden rat-like creatures with bright orange teeth are spreading panic in California as their population explodes. Nearly 1,000 nutria – an up to 4ft vector of tuberculosis – have been ...

The 20-pound nutria, native to South America, has somehow managed to establish a population in the Suisun Marsh.

The nutria rodent has become a migrating problem in the Central Valley, including sensitive wetlands in Solano County. That could be a significant threat to local agriculture. A large, fast ...

More than 500 nutria, a large aquatic South American rodent ... Its open mouth would reveal two hideously orange buck teeth. Every day it can eat five pounds of vegetation and destroys 20 pounds ...

Its open mouth would reveal two hideously orange buck teeth ... Known by a deceivingly healthy-sounding name —nutria — its eating and burrowing ways can literally destroy natural wetland ...