African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

Rats have sniffed out landmines and searched for earthquake survivors. Now, they are being trained to detect evidence of wildlife smuggling. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE!

Previous generations of these giant rats have successfully assisted in landmine detection, which was Weetjens’s initial goal, and in detecting tuberculosis. Now, the rats have been trained for a ...

All of this is done in association with the Belgian-registered and Tanzania-based NGO APOPO, whose achievements include training gold medal winner Magawa the rat, who helped find 71 landmines and ...

Rats are often seen as pests and vermin, but they can also do useful jobs for us, like hunting for landmines. To aid in their work, [kjwu] designed the RatPack, a wearable device that lets these ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP): A landmine-hunting rat that was awarded a gold medal for heroism for clearing ordnance from the Cambodian countryside has died, his charity said Tuesday (Jan 11). Magawa ...