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

TB is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, but it remains the number-one cause of death globally from a single ...

APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania – Rats have long been misunderstood, often seen as pests rather than pals. However, the African giant pouched rat, the largest in the world, possesses special qualities that ...

has worked for years with African giant pouched rats. Their rodents learn to sniff out mines on old battlefields in Angola, Mozambique and Cambodia, or to detect tuberculosis in phlegm samples ...

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers ...

Less well-known, but no less impressive are rats, with the African giant pouched rat being the star of the show. Recently a student at the Dutch Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e ...

The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct ... It is also known as the house, roof or ship rat and is found throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife species and remember targets for several months. Image APOPO Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

APOPO, a nonprofit in Tanzania, is training giant rats equipped with tiny vests in scent detection to prevent illegal wildlife trafficking. Video produced by Ellenoor Shameli Train enthusiast ...

The giant African snails can carry the parasite rat lungworm, which is known to cause meningitis in humans, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Stephanie ...