For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals Kaleela Thompson Native to parts of Africa and Asia, pangolins ...

A critically endangered Sunda pangolin that was rescued from a washing machine is ready to be released back into the wild, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Today is World Pangolin Day, an occasion to ...

Sabah, Malaysia, 13th February 2018—There’s a little good news for the world’s most trafficked mammal ahead of World Pangolin Day this year. The state of Sabah in Malaysia, which has seen some of the ...

In Scaly Nexus: Mapping Indonesian pangolin seizures, TRAFFIC researchers found an equivalent of 35,632 pangolins had been seized in 111 enforcement cases over the six-year period from 2010 to 2015.

Notebooks confiscated by the Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) reveal that 22,000 Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) were illegally poached from May 2007 to January 2009 in the Malaysian state in northern ...

Pangolins are in crisis, with all eight species threatened with extinction. This means that an entire taxonomic Order, the Pholidota, faces going the way of the dodo. Fortunately, pangolins are ...

Just when we thought the worst was behind us, there might be something new, something more dangerous knocking at the door. A new research surrounding the breeding, buying, selling and overall illegal ...

Nature is endowed with innumerable creatures, and each one is unique in its own way. Among them, many species across the world face serious threats to their survival today. The World Wildlife Fund ...

Last year tens-of-thousands of elephants and hundreds of rhinos were butchered to feed the growing appetite of the illegal wildlife trade. This black market, largely centered in East Asia, also ...