Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year ...

Jones saw a superstar quality in Jackson and became his producer and mentor, first on 1979's Off the Wall, which was a major ...

Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife ...

F orget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after ...

Most of us are familiar with the vest-clad beagle that hunts for illegal fruits and plants in the travelers' luggage at ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

The African giant pouched rat is the world’s largest rat, weighing three pounds on average and stretching some two to three feet long, from the nose to the tip of the tail. The nocturnal rodents live ...

Trialing these research findings in the real world, APOPO last year conducted ... acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). African giant pouched rats have an average lifespan of around eight years ...

African giant pouched rats have been used to detect explosives and are being trained for search and rescue operations ...

Scientists say their research shows the rats have a similar sense of smell to dogs, but they're able to fit in tighter spaces.

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the scent of highly ...