Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

The giant pouched rat has been named by the Belgian charity as its most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) for uncovering 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance since 2021, Apopo said ...

Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness World Records ...

HeroRAT Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has earned a Guinness World Records title as the most successful mine-detection ...

A bomb-detecting rat has smashed a world record by sniffing out more than 100 landmines in Cambodia. Since his deployment in 2021, Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has sniffed out 109 landmines ...

Surprisingly, the team is made up mostly of rats - with a few human handlers guiding them. The adorable Gambian pouched rats outperform both metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs when it comes to ...

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

An African landmine-sniffing rat in Cambodia has broken a world record after detecting more than 100 landmines and other explosives in the country, announced its non-profit Apopo on Friday. The giant ...