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 ...

The pangolin - an endangered mammal with scales all over its body, and a long tongue that it uses to hunt ants - has now entered the COVID-19 scientific journals because it carries a coronavirus that ...

Paris — The novel coronavirus outbreak in China may end up saving one of the world's most trafficked animals after Beijing announced a total ban on the sale and consumption of the pangolin. The scaly ...

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 ...

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 ...