Spotify The muskrat houses, once spotted in multitudes, were missing. That’s what a reader — who recalled seeing the critters ...

The U.S. government promoted muskrat for dinner with a 1943 leaflet "Recipes for Cooking Muskrat Meat," from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service out of Chicago. Erb has a copy pinned above his desk.

These neighbors of his are actually the Prior Lake muskrat population. Last year, they ... naked tail. Adults weigh somewhere between 2 and 5 pounds, according to the Minnesota Department of ...

For their 50 muskrat pelts, they can get prices that haven’t been seen in Minnesota for decades. “Today, I’m paying $7 for ‘rats that are stretched and skinned,” said Mark Melby, a fur ...

July 20 (UPI) --A pair of young visitors to a Minnesota lake captured video of a bizarre sight -- a fish swimming off with a flailing muskrat trapped in its mouth.The video, filmed from a dock on ...

Muskrat fur pelts on display at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading post in Onamia, Minnesota. Created no earlier than 1918. Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.

During the harsh winter of the Battles of the River Raisin, the area’s settlers ran out of food and survived on a diet heavy on muskrats, said Jami Keegan, an interpretive ranger at the park. “In ...

A recent break-in at an Iron Range tire shop had grown men screaming and jumping on desks. What was first believed to be a giant rat by employees returning to work after a weekend turned out to be ...

A recent break-in at an Iron Range tire shop had grown men screaming and jumping on desks. What was first believed to be a giant rat by employees returning to work after a weekend turned out to be ...