They may not be as cute, and do not make headlines like tigers, elephants or rhinos, but Nepal’s pangolins are critically endangered and need as much protection as those better known mammals. A report ...

At Libassa Wildlife Sanctuary in Liberia, West Africa, Juty Deh Jr is bottle feeding milk to an orphaned baby pangolin. These small, scaly creatures are believed to be the most trafficked mammal in ...

Pangolins are like small anteaters covered in scales. They eat mostly insects such as ants or termites, and they can roll up into a ball for defense. They are the most trafficked animal in the world, ...

Seven species of pangolin could soon be federally protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, an animal which officials have called "the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal." In an ...

The Pujenvong council, part of the local government within northeastern India's Nagaland state, has banned the hunting, trade ...

A Nepalese conservationist is studying the impact of forest fires on scaly mammals called pangolins—and inspiring a whole new generation of researchers to appreciate them. Nepal is home to two of the ...

Pangolins are being over-poached, a conservation group has warned, thanks to being "eaten to extinction" in China and Vietnam. An action plan issued Tuesday called for ending poaching, as well as ...

Gabon's government on Friday banned the sale and eating of bats and pangolins, which are suspected of sparking the novel coronavirus in China where they are highly prized in traditional medicine.

There’s a lot scientists don’t know about the pangolin — a peculiar, scaly mammal that looks like a cross between an aardvark and an armadillo. Now, a new paper published in the journal Chromosome ...