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 ...

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 ...

At Libassa Wildlife Sanctuary in Liberia, West Africa, Juty Deh Jr is bottle feeding milk to an orphaned baby pangolin. These small, scaly creatures are believed to be the most trafficked mammal in ...

Eating and selling bat and pangolin meat has been banned by officials in Gabon. The decision was made over fears related to the global coronavirus pandemic, which is thought to stem from wild animal ...

A Nepalese conservationist is studying the impact of forest fires on scaly mammals called pangolins—and inspiring a whole new generation of researchers to appreciate them. Nepal is home to two of the ...

Pangolins are being over-poached, a conservation group has warned, thanks to being "eaten to extinction" in China and Vietnam. An action plan issued Tuesday called for ending poaching, as well as ...

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 ...

In April 2020, conservation authorities in South Africa rescued a pregnant Temminck’s pangolin from the wildlife trade, and placed her in the African Pangolin Working Group’s release program after an ...

In Taiwan, a Formosan pangolin travels through a land of giants to find a mate in a protected forest. The lonely male encounters dangerous and strange characters along the way, from a cobra to a ...

Call it a “scaly anteater,” “nature’s backhoe,” a “walking pine cone,” or “an artichoke on legs.” Remark on its scale-covered body or its impressively long tongue. But you best get to know the ...