Pangolins have armored bodies covered with overlapping scales that protect the mid-sized mammals that are native to parts of ...

The pangolin is a midsize mammal found only in Africa and Asia. The pangolins' scales make them unique, but these scales have ...

Pangolins use powerful claws and long tongues to tear into logs and feed on ants and termites. Their scales are made of keratin, not medicine, and illegal wildlife trafficking remains a major threat ...

Pangolins, which look like a cross between an anteater and a pinecone, are the most-trafficked mammals in the world. In a new ...

The United States on Monday moved to extend federal protections to all species of pangolins—a step that would tighten trade restrictions and highlight the urgent conservation plight of the world's ...

Before researchers suggested pangolins may be a missing link in the transmission of coronavirus from bats to humans, most people had never even heard of them. Yet these scaly, ant-eating mammals are ...

As scientists work to get to the root of Covid-19, the world’s attention is turning to a little-known, strange, scaled animal. Meet the pangolin, the real-world Pokemon that could hold clues to the ...

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade. Nonprofits with hotlines to report trafficking produce an outsized impact in saving animals. Pangolins are the world's most trafficked mammal.