FILE - Children play near a landmine warning and a Buddhist shrine in New Village Border, Cambodia, March 10, 2005, along the Thai border. A land mine-detecting rat in Cambodia who received a ...

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: ...

Ronin, a five-year-old rat, has been honored by the Guinness Book of Records after sniffing out over 100 unexploded landmines ...

The famous African rat Magawa sniffed out more than 100 land mines in Cambodia, possibly saving thousands of lives. Over the weekend, Magawa died peacefully, according to a press release by APOPO, an ...

PHNOM PENH – 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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A land ...