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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African giant pouched rats have such a keen sense of smell, they are being used to detect landmines across Cambodia. It's an ...

Magawa the "hero rat," whose work sniffing out landmines in Cambodia won him a medal for life-saving bravery, is retiring after a distinguished five-year career. The African giant pouched rat has ...

(CNN) — Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. CNN — (CNN) — Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

You may remember our story about Magawa, the landmine detection rat that the Homeland Security Today team sponsors via APOPO, the global non-profit that trains Magawa and his fellow giant pouched rats ...

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 ...

A rat has sniffed his way into the record books — and saved lives in the process. Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World ...