Beavers dig up and eat the very toxic rhizomes (how do they deal with the toxins?). The champion fern-eater is the so-called mountain beaver, a burrowing rodent living in the Pacific Northwest.

Many would be surprised to learn what’s actually in their favorite comfort foods and beverages — and the rather disturbing origins such ingredients have.

Beavers are obese vegetarians (an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp) and the world’s second-biggest rodent species. The biggest is the capybara, a South American critter that also lives in the water ...

John Snedden knows muskrat is a tough sell to diners, but that’s not stopping him from turning them into a stew. “That’s something they’ve never seen on the dinner table,” he says. The ...

An eager beaver had a utility pole for dinner in DeTour Village in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Cloverland Electric Cooperative posted the photo on Facebook, saying that a crew replaced the pole.

Trappers were most interested in beavers for their pelts. Once a beaver is liberated of its fur, though, another opportunity presents itself to men not too squeamish to eat a ...