PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is welcoming a pair of giant rodents known for their size, smarts and sense of smell. Now, they are ready to be seen by visitors at the zoo, officials announced ...

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 ...

HeroRAT Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has earned a Guinness World Records title as the most successful mine-detection rat. Guinness World Records Managing Editor, Adam Millward, praised the ...

A rat, on a leash, on a mission. That is what we might soon see in ports and airports as rats become the next big thing in the fight against illegal wildlife trade. This comes after researchers ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday. The ...

Land mines and tuberculosis are two of the deadliest problems on the planet. Bart Weetjens has the same solution for both of them: Rats. When he was a college student at the University of Antwerp, ...

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 ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday. The ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Researchers have successfully trained African giant pouched rats to sniff rhino horns ...