The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) Credit: Sarita Jnawali of NTNC – Central Zoo The United States, CC BY 2.0 The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) Credit: Sarita Jnawali of NTNC – Central ...

Nigerian officials have arrested a Chinese national suspected of masterminding a transnational smuggling operation of pangolin scales, Netherlands-based nonprofit Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ground pangolin in South Africa. David Brossard via Flickr The use of pangolin parts in traditional Chinese medicine is driving ...

Around 3.4 million years ago, a hidden evolutionary tale unfolded in the Indo-Burma region: a cryptic pangolin species diverged from the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla). Long thought to be the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States on Monday moved to extend federal protections to all species of pangolins — a step that would tighten trade restrictions and highlight the urgent conservation ...

The decision to upgrade the protection level of the Chinese pangolin to the same level as the giant panda is expected to help strengthen the focus on pangolin monitoring, rescue and conservation in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PRAGUE (AP) — A second Chinese pangolin was ...

A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in captivity in Europe, and is doing well after initial troubles, the park said on Thursday. For ...

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed that seven species of pangolin be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Pangolins are often poached for their meat and scales. The World Wildlife ...

Scientists doing a routine analysis of confiscated wildlife in India started noticing a pattern in their data — and soon discovered a “cryptic” new species, already among “the most heavily trafficked ...