These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ...

The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift. The April 1975 effort matched more th ...

Magawa the rat helped to discover over 100 undetonated landmines! Read here to learn more about why and how Magawa worked so ...

Cambodia is recognizing the life-saving contributions of a rat named Magawa with a statue. The late rat sniffed out landmines ...

Magawa would identify chemicals in undetonated explosives and then alert his handlers to their location. Because Magawa ...

Magawa the African giant pouched rat cleared more 1.5 million square feet of land mines during his five-year career, making ...

Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, sniffed out more than 100 land mines during his five-year career, saving countless lives. To honor his bravery, a seven-foot statue of Magawa was unveiled on ...

Born in 2013, Magawa was trained as a “HeroRAT,” learning to harness his strong sense of smell to detect explosives.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 03 April 2026, Cambodia, Siem Reap: An employee of the APOPO organization presents a minesweeper rat. To mark International Mine ...

Morogoro, Tanzania — At Mazimbu village, not far from Tanzania's Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Stephano Jaka still remembers the night he trapped and killed a rat that had been feasting on ...