By Keith Anthony Fabro Around 3.4 million years ago, a hidden evolutionary tale unfolded in the Indo-Burma region: a cryptic ...
By Keith Anthony Fabro As one of the world’s largest consumers of pangolin products, primarily in traditional medicine, China ...
Pangolins are scaly, anteater-like mammals known for their long tongues, burrowing lifestyles and elusive habits. Throughout ...
A new species of pangolin has been discovered, but already it is deemed to be threatened by illegal trade. The Indo-Burmese ...
One new species was kept in captivity for years while another has become a local food delicacy, researchers said.
Consider for one moment the unlikely existence of the pangolin. The world’s only scaly mammal looks like an armadillo but has more in common genetically with a dog. It has no teeth, poor ...
Hong Kong customs has made the year’s biggest seizure so far of endangered pangolins’ scales, finding a tonne of the contraband along with 13kg of dried snake gall bladders in a shipping ...
China has announced an annual quota of 1 metric ton of pangolin scales for medicinal use, raising concerns among conservationists about potential illegal trafficking despite this being a ...
Law enforcement in northeastern India seized pangolins and pangolin scales from wildlife traffickers and gave the specimens to scientists for forensic analysis, Mukesh Thakur, one of the ...