Fittingly for a movie borrowing its title from the 1987 fairy tale comedy "The Princess Bride," the nutria documentary "Rodents of Unusual Size" starts with a once-upon-a-time. Whether it concludes ...

Those are some uses humans have found for nutria. The giant, semiaquatic rodents also inspired Boudreaux D. Nutria, mascot for the New Orleans Baby Cakes minor league baseball team. Meanwhile, the ...

Delacroix fisherman Thomas Gonzales would rather collect crabs and hunt alligators, but between seafood seasons, he hunts nutria. Though it’s edible, he doesn’t eat the meat. He collects $5 per tail ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - "Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist." Well Wesley, indeed they do. It's as if the writers of the movie "The Princess Bride" knew that Rodents of Unusual Size would ...

The trio of filmmakers behind the Independent Lens film Rodents of Unusual Size — Jeff Springer, Chris Metzler and Quinn Costello — have previously captured unique environmental stories with a very ...

California has a rodent problem. And it's a big one. Nutria are two-and-a-half foot long, 20-pound rodents that are often confused with beavers. The invasive species likes to burrow in the state's ...