Although Magawa weighed less than three pounds, his impact was monumental. The African giant pouched rat sniffed out more ...

Rats often divide public opinion. People with pet rats hail them as intelligent and even affectionate creatures. The rats ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to identify ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...

African giant pouched rats can detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been concealed among other substances. Source: APOPO, used with permission. The scale of the illegal wildlife ...

When Carolina retired from her job in November, her colleagues clapped, cheered, and celebrated over cake. Over her seven-year career, she had detected more than 3,000 hidden cases of tuberculosis (TB ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding ...