Covered in overlapping keratin scales, the African pangolin looks more like a walking pinecone than a mammal. Yet, not many can tell how essential the. Check out our stories from Culture, Living, ...

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that the scales of a pangolin, a small ant-eating mammal, are "cool" and "salty." Eating those scales, the TCM thinking goes, may help expel wind, reduce swelling ...

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 ...

The pangolin, often called the "scaly anteater," is one of nature's most remarkable creatures. Recognised for its distinctive ...

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 have had many column inches given over to them in article after article, particularly in recent months. They have rocketed from obscurity to prominence and taken on the unwanted title of ...