Through the 1930s, Vereshchagin had personally supervised the introduction of an initial community of 213 giant South American rodents – known as coypu, nutria, swamp beavers, swamp rats or ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

It is also referred to as a coypu, coypu rat, nutria rat, or swamp beaver. While nutria may look cuddly from a distance, they usually weigh in at around 11-22 pounds (and are often more than 20 ...

The States said: "The rodent, which looks like a large rat, is a non-native, invasive species. "Islanders are advised not to approach the coypu, but to report sightings." In England and Wales ...

Just as well, too, since the nutria is one ornery beast. The nutria, also known as a coypu rat, nutria rat, river rat or swamp beaver, and by its Latin name myocastor coypus, is native to South ...