PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s landmine-sniffing rat Magawa, who found more than 100 landmines and explosives during a five-year career, has died at the age of 8, leaving a lasting legacy of saved lives in ...

An African landmine-sniffing rat in Cambodia has broken a world record after detecting more than 100 landmines and other explosives in the country, announced its non-profit Apopo on Friday. The giant ...

But Pit is not human. He is part of a team of elite rats, imported from Africa, that Cambodia is training to sniff out landmines that still dot the countryside after decades of conflict. Pit, only two ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A land-mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced.

LONDON (AP) — A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Magawa the giant ...

It's been a busy morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria and others of their furry band. Tiny noses and long whiskers twitching, they've scurried and sniffed their way across 775 square meters (8,300 ...

APOPO said its "Hero Rat" Magawa, who has detected land mines over the past five years in Cambodia, is retiring. In a news release, the organization stated that Magawa has sniffed out and found 71 ...

Landmines are one of the most dangerous legacies of war, continuing to kill and injure long after the fighting has ended. These hidden threats lurk beneath roads, villages, and fields. Tragically, ...

The Cambodian government is using an unorthodox method—giant trained rats—in their efforts to address the country’s land mine problem, the Bangkok Post reports. This is them at work: Unexploded ...