The 7-foot statue honors Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, who detected over 100 land mines throughout his career.

“Magawa was one of the best rats we’ve ever had,” said Michael Raine, who works for Apopo, a nonprofit that trains animals to detect land mines.

A supersized rat thought to be the UK’s biggest has been captured by pest controllers in a home in the north of England. The giant animal, which measured 22 inches long, was found in the Normanby area ...

Giant rats the size of a dog? … Yikes. That’s exactly what happened in a home located in Great Britain — Normanby, North Yorkshire to be exact. The rat was the size of a small dog. And to make the ...

Animals aren’t just amazing pets or fun to look at; they are also incredibly intelligent and assist humans every day. We’re ...

London — The photo of a man holding what appears to be a huge rat has gone viral, but it turns out the rodent may not be as massive as first believed. Tony Smith, 46, claims he found the rat near a ...

Carolina isn't your average retiree. After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that medical tests had missed, ...