But I don’t see a rat. I see a valuable crime- and disease-fighting buddy. Since 2010, trained African giant pouched rats like this one have sniffed out around 160,000 landmines and other ...

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after ...

African giant pouched rats, which have previously been trained to sniff out buried mines and detect tuberculosis, are now being used to stop smuggling in Tanzania, The Guardian reported.

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to identify ...

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 First broadcast in ...

U.S., like the endangered giant kangaroo rat, will face much more frequent and severe droughts in the future. By 2050-2080, ...

A special Academy screening of Nosferatu will be disrupted by an oncoming PETA protest that aims to set the record straight on rats.

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 ...

No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

The animal rights organization plans to send a “giant rat” to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater to “set the record straight” about the 5,000 live rats Eggers uses during one sequence in the film ...

A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science reveals that African giant pouched rats could play a significant role in combating illegal wildlife trafficking.