The world's most trafficked wild mammal, pangolins require huge amounts of care to rehabilitate. Here's how Stevie the ...

Overexploitation is a major factor in the decline of many species. Humans exploit at least a third of vertebrate animals to provide food, products, or medicines. A scaly mammal called the pangolin is ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a new DNA tracing technique that can identify where trafficked pangolins were originally poached.

Pangolins, often called “scaly anteaters,” are among nature’s most extraordinary mammals. Their bodies are covered with tough, overlapping scales that act as living armor. These scales are more than ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Pangolins, the scaly anteaters that are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, face a host of challenges throughout their range, including ...

Within Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s Habitat Africa: The Forest, there is a creature that looks like a living pinecone, covered in keratin scales and equipped with powerful claws for digging into ant and ...

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals Kaleela Thompson Native to parts of Africa and Asia, pangolins ...

A scaly and endangered mammal could be the missing link in a coronavirus mystery that’s baffling scientists, according to a new study. Researchers suggest pangolins passed the virus behind the ...