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 ...

The giant ground pangolin reemerged in Kenya in 2018, the first time the scaly creature had been spotted in 47 years. It was thought to be locally extinct, but since 2022, “The Pangolin Project has ...

The high wealth of biodiversity in Indonesia makes this country becomes the home for distribution and market sales of endangered and high-value wildlife. The high wealth of biodiversity in Indonesia ...

As a deadly coronavirus spreads across China and ripples through other parts of the world, scientists are trying to pinpoint how humans first got exposed. So far, they know the virus is zoonotic, ...

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 ...

Kulu, a rescued ground pangolin in South Africa, is the star of Netflix's latest wildlife documentary, "Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey." - Netflix Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series ...

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 ...

Pangolins possess a genetic quirk that may offer them some kind of protection against coronaviruses like COVID-19, according to scientists. If these suspicions prove to be correct, researchers hope it ...

An increasing demand for the scales and meat of the endangered pangolin in China and Vietnam is pushing impoverished farmers in India’s north-east into the illegal trade, a new report has found.

Long-tailed pangolin (M. tetradactyla). (Credit: Brett Hartl/ Center for Biological Diversity via Courthouse News) Long-tailed pangolin (M. tetradactyla). (Credit: Brett Hartl/ Center for Biological ...