It's 5:45 in the morning, and in a training field outside Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat, Cambodia's demining rats are already hard at work. Their noses are close to the wet grass, darting from side to ...

While many might recoil at the sight of a rat, in Cambodia, a unique team of rodents is proving indispensable in the life-saving mission to clear landmines. The African giant pouched rats can grow up ...

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 ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - In a laboratory on the grounds of a police-guarded complex, 11 white-furred rats wait their turn to impress trainers and perhaps receive a bit of sugar as reward. The rodents could ...

TRACH, Cambodia (AP) — It's been a busy morning for Cletus, Meynard, Victoria and others of their furry band. Tiny noses and long whiskers twitching, they've scurried and sniffed their way across 775 ...

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 ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping specialists detect land mines that have killed and ...

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Anti-tank mines, anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions are the dragon’s teeth of modern warfare. Minefields are seldom cleared after conflicts have ended, remaining lethal for decades.

(CNN) — Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. (CNN) — Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin ...