The small animals, whose scales are coveted for use in Chinese medicine, are now among the world’s most trafficked mammals. A Temminck’s ground pangolin named Tamuda searches for a meal of ...

a critically endangered mammal with sought-after scales, the study said. A trail camera photo shows the pangolin’s back. A Sunda pangolin, or Manis javanica, seen on Ko Pha Ngan. Photo from Cook ...

The story of the mammals is only one example of adaptive radiation, a process that has happened again and again, at scales both large and small, in evolutionary history.

What developmental mechanisms ensure that some morphological traits (e.g., heart size in mammals) scale more or less isometrically to body size, while others (e.g., brain size) scale ...

Luckily their plight is becoming more well known. These charmingly odd, termite-eating mammals are covered from head to tail with large, overlapping scales. But one of their most interesting ...

DESCRIPTION: Pangolins are mammals but are uniquely covered from head to tail with large, geometric scales made of keratin. Pangolins range in weight from just 4 pounds to a record 70 pounds.

A photo shows the female deer. The most at-risk species documented in the survey was a Sunda pangolin, a critically endangered mammal with sought-after scales, the study said. A trail camera photo ...