Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

If you don't have an Explosive Lure, the next best thing is a Molotove Cocktail or Poison Bomb. These both leave areas of flame and toxic gas, respectively, that the rats will rush into and die ...

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 ...

They are also light enough that they don't trip the bombs when walking over them. These aren't just your everyday sewer rats. These Gambian pouched rats are native to sub-Saharan Africa and can ...

A bomb-detecting rat has smashed a world record by sniffing out more than 100 landmines in Cambodia. Since his deployment in 2021, Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has sniffed out 109 landmines ...

Ronin, a landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia, has become the first in the world to uncover more than 100 explosives. A five-year-old African giant pouched rat named Ronin has chalked history by ...

Rats often get a bad rap, but now one heroic rodent is being hailed for his work in sniffing out landmines in Cambodia. Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, has been presented with the PDSA ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations ... The US dropped 2.7 million tons of ordnance – including cluster bombs and submunitions – in a four-year carpet-bombing campaign in Cambodia.

The adorable Gambian pouched rats outperform both metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs when it comes to finding unexploded devices. They can also work a lot faster - covering more miles of land ...