Experts and authorities might have found the best ally for any sniffing jobs: African giant pouched rats. An NGO mounted a lab to train the rodents for several search tasks.

After five years of sniffing out land mines in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring. The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit ...

A hero rat who was commended for his outstanding service detecting landmines has died. Magawa, a giant African pouched rat trained to find unexploded ordnance, was retired last year. The 'HeroRAT ...