Nicci Wright–co-founder and co-chairperson of the African Pangolin Working Group (APWG), dedicated to the protection and the conservation of the pangolin, the world’s most trafficked animal—recalls ...

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.

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 ...

Veterinary nurse, Alicia Abbott, of the African Pangolin Working Group in South Africa holds a pangolin, at a Wildlife Veterinary Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.AP Veterinary nurse, Alicia ...

World Pangolin Day takes place on February 21, 2026, yet many people still struggle to identify a pangolin or explain why it matters. These quiet, scale-covered mammals resemble small armored ...

BEIJING (AP) — Activists in China have released a pangolin into the wild to celebrate new protections for the armadillo-like animal whose numbers in the country have dropped to near extinction levels.

Pangolins may look more like reptiles, but they are mammals — the only mammals with scales. Since they also have long, sticky tongues and their main diet is ants and termites, scientists previously ...