Although Magawa weighed less than three pounds, his impact was monumental. The African giant pouched rat sniffed out more than 100 land mines during his five-year career, saving countless lives. To ...

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: ...

Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and ...

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 ...

Ronin the mine-detecting rat from Cambodia has already detected 109 landmines and 15 unexploded ordnance. His extraordinary achievements have earned him the Guinness World Record for the most ...

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 ...

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, ...

TRACH, Cambodia – 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 8,300 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 03 April 2026, Cambodia, Siem Reap: An employee of the APOPO organization presents a minesweeper rat. To mark International Mine ...