The study demonstrated that the giant rats successfully detected samples of elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales and ...

Learn more › African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) could be the next line of defense in the illegal wildlife trade. A team of researchers have trained these three-pound rats to pick ...

A giant rat crawled inside a little girl’s top as she played with a friend on the ground - and stayed remarkably cool as she waited for the rodent to leave. The children were inside a store in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scientists have flipped the cliché of smelling a rat by training giant rodents to sniff out contraband ...

They’re rats. And they wear tiny red vests. African giant pouched rats have been trained to identify pangolin scales, elephant ivory and other items from at-risk species, researchers report ...