Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents ...

Active landmines pose a serious threat in several countries across the world. A report suggests that about 110 million landmines remain buried globally even today. A majority of them are found in ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday. The ...

Meet the latest recipient of a gold medal award for “life-saving bravery”: Magawa. He's a rat -- a landmine-sniffing rat -- specifically, an African giant pouched rat -- now recognized for his work ...

Landmines remain an ever present danger on battlefields. That’s for both soldiers in an active conflict and civilians once a war is over. Millions of anti-personnel landmines are buried around the ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...