11 cool facts about skunks It's a muskrat! The semi-aquatic rodents look like a beaver, but are much smaller and without the flat paddle tail — and they're everywhere on P.E.I.

She had already been down the mine several times in March, 2014, when she and Donald McAlpine, the museum’s head curator of natural science, came across a dead muskrat – not a beaver ...

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This beaver isn't the only aquatic mammal Huy has photographed in recent weeks. Earlier this year, Huy shared photographs of an otter and muskrat in High Park's Grenadier Pond.

Muskrats are significantly smaller, weighing under five pounds. And while beavers may also have orange-hued teeth, a nutria's trademark dark orange chompers really stand out. They also have long white ...

However, muskrats have scalier tails with flat sides while nutria tails are rounded and hairless. Despite muskrats having the word "rat" in their name, nutrias have a more "rat-like" tail.

However, muskrats have scalier tails with flat sides while nutria tails are rounded and hairless. Despite muskrats having the word "rat" in their name, nutrias have a more "rat-like" tail.