A heroic rat named Magawa has been working for five years in Cambodia, sniffing out dozens of land mines. He is believed to have saved lives. Now, the animal is about to embark on a well-deserved ...

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 ...

Eagerly sniffing, Baraka dashes across a stubble field. He can't see very well, but his sense of smell is extremely well-developed. Because Baraka, a giant hamster rat with an important job to do: ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced. Magawa ...

An army of rats is set to sniff its way across land in Azerbaijan working, literally, for peanuts as they hunt for land mines. Photos published by Azerbaijani photojournalist Aziz Karimov in late June ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania (AP) — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A land-mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in retirement, the charity for which he had worked has announced.

MOROGORO, Tanzania — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...

Magawa detected more than 100 land mines and other explosives during his five-year career. A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a prestigious award for his life-saving duty has died in ...