Carolina isn't your average retiree. After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that medical tests had missed, ...

Giant rats the size of a dog? … Yikes. That’s exactly what happened in a home located in Great Britain — Normanby, North Yorkshire to be exact. The rat was the size of a small dog. And to make the ...

Thanks to a dedicated group of scientists training them for the job, giant rats are taking down the illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania. Rats are often seen as disease-carrying pests to avoid at all ...

A 22-inch rat was found at a residence in England. Eston Ward Councilors David Taylor and Stephen Martin posted about the alarming discovery, made in a neighborhood in North Yorkshire, on Facebook on ...

Scientist captures first-ever video of giant in Papua New Guinea. The rodent can grow nearly 3 feet long and weigh over 4 pounds. The species were previously known only from 1989 museum records.

LONDON (AP) — A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Magawa the giant ...

From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia ...

The Cambodian government is using an unorthodox method—giant trained rats—in their efforts to address the country’s land mine problem, the Bangkok Post reports. This is them at work: Unexploded ...