In addition to having local hunters as his guides, Vejmělka set up a camera trap on a fallen log over a stream in a dense ...

Czech science student František Vejmělka is the first to capture the giant woolly rat on camera — one of the world’s largest ...

An elusive nocturnal beast of a rodent that lives high in the mountains has been filmed and photographed for the first time, in a remarkable discovery for animal science and something akin to winning ...

Carolina, a trained rat, helped detect 3,000 TB cases. APOPO’s HeroRATS identify TB faster than humans, boosting detection ...

A newly released video shows the first-ever footage of the subalpine woolly rat, one of the world’s largest rodents, captured in Papua New Guinea.

Consider why rats may be your next choice for a pet. First off, pet rats are the domesticated form of Rattus norvegicus, the ...

A six-month expedition to the tropical island of New Guinea has led to a remarkable discovery by a young Czech doctoral ...

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...

African wild dogs are carnivores always thought to hunt in packs. But new DNA analysis has found they also eat small birds and hares and may hunt alone.

Some consider rats, not to be confused with mice, as pests. Others deem them lifesavers. One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives ...

From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia ...

A rat has sniffed his way into the record books — and saved lives in the process. Ronin the African giant pouched rat set a new world record for the most landmines detected by a rat. Guinness ...