African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct ... It is also known as the house, roof or ship rat and is found throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

African giant pouched rats, which have previously been trained to sniff out buried mines and detect tuberculosis, are now being used to stop smuggling in Tanzania, The Guardian reported.