Pangolins are vital for the ecosystem but face severe threats due to illegal trafficking and habitat destruction, requiring ...

The pangolin is a living fossil with many unique biological characteristics, such as overlapping keratin scales covering the body, a specialized diet, a long and muscular tongue, a sensitive olfactory ...

Pangolins operate much the same way as armadillos and anteaters, but they are not related. Found in Africa and southern Asia, they are toothless and collect ants, termites, and larvae with their ...

Covered in spines and equipped with a long, sticky tongue, echidnas burrow and forage for ants and ... playing and feeding on fruit and insects. Pangolin in a defensive position. Rachad sanoussi, CC ...

Chinese Pangolin. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters ... the Sun Bear has a stout body and a long tongue, which it uses to extract honey from beehives. Found in Southeast Asia, these ...

Pangolins are unique as they are the only mammal to be covered in scales. Even though they are scaly, photos of them are typically met with "awwws" from the viewers, who find them adorable.

In a surprising discovery, a camera trap set up near a human-dominated landscape in Pune’s grasslands and farmlands has captured an image of the Indian pangolin. The sighting highlights how ...

A study of Chinese court records from 2010 to 2023 found that pangolin scale seizures peaked in 2018 and have since declined; while the authors attribute this to increased enforcement and public ...

KARACHI: The population of the Indian pangolin - Manis Crassicaudata in the country has plummeted due to poaching, illegal trade, habitat destruction, retaliatory killings, and climate change ...

The Chinese Pangolin is one of two species that researchers have now provided high-quality, nearly gapless genome sequences and analyzed these for information to aid in conservation of these animals.

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized 21,582 tonnes of pangolin scales from traffickers since July 2021. Wildlife Africa, made this known on Saturday in an event to commemorate the World ...