Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jared Ranahan is a reporter who covers travel and ecotourism. Jul 31, 2025, 08:00am EDT The white-bellied pangolin (Phataginus ...

Within Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s Habitat Africa: The Forest, there is a creature that looks like a living pinecone, covered in keratin scales and equipped with powerful claws for digging into ant and ...

Months after the internet swooned over Moo Deng the pygmy hippopotamus and Pesto the penguin, a new critter has catapulted into the spotlight: an orphaned pangolin pup named Kulu. Kulu is the subject ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago has been leading efforts to protect and study pangolins for almost ten years. The zoo is the only ...

In the incredible Instagram clip below, a pangolin buries its head into a log for lunch. The beautiful scaled mammal is on all fours, standing within the log as a zoo worker crouches behind her. The ...

Native to Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales. Pangolins are also one of the world's most trafficked mammals, prized for their meat and scales, which are used ...

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 ...

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — They are hunted for their unique scales, and the demand makes them the most trafficked mammal in the world. Wildlife conservationists are again raising the plight of ...

“One of the biggest threats to pangolins globally is habitat loss, but here in Singapore, road accidents are a larger immediate threat. We live in an urban city but we have a lot of wildlife all ...

In 2023, scientists made a surprising find regarding pangolins. Scientists have long believed that pangolins have eight branches in their family tree. But an unlikely discovery made from studying ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...