A patrol of rookie rats show they are man’s best friend after being trained to scent TNT on minefields ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping specialists detect land mines that have killed and ...

Eagerly sniffing, Baraka dashes across a stubble field. He can't see very well, but his sense of smell is extremely well-developed. Because Baraka, a giant hamster rat with an important job to do: ...

The species already has a strong track record in detection. The Belgian organization APOPO has been training their “heroRATS” to find land mines for 20 years, and it says the animals have helped clear ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — 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. Magawa ...

An army of rats is set to sniff its way across land in Azerbaijan working, literally, for peanuts as they hunt for land mines. Photos published by Azerbaijani photojournalist Aziz Karimov in late June ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania (AP) — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...

TRACH, Cambodia (AP) — 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 ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...